The Citizenship law, which pretended to be a humanitarian exercise, became a parochial, communal act exposing the cosmopolitan pretensions of the BJP.
A quick history of each of these people makes you wonder at the sanitisation of evil, of how quickly violence and war can be forgotten, writes sociologist Shiv Visvanathan.
BY Shiv Visvanathan 6 November 2019
The idea of minority as a category evokes representation, number in stereotyped ways.
BY Shiv Visvanathan 21 October 2019
The little Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thornburg has an ethical startup. A child talking climate change. Telling truth to power is an ethical startup, a Jesuit philosopher told the writer.
BY Shiv Visvanathan 23 September 2019
The High Court’s decision on Daryaganj was not an act of civic hygiene or crowd control but a sheer cleansing of memory.
BY Shiv Visvanathan 30 August 2019
I hope you don’t mind the temerity of this letter. It is written as one scholar to another, one citizen to another...I was aghast to find that Doctor Binayak Sen has been given a life term for sedition...
BY Shiv Visvanathan 26 December 2010
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