For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Kshirod Nag In contemporary India, education is increasingly understood through the language of employability, skill development and economic productivity. Schools and universities are judged by placement records, competitive examination outcomes and their ability to supply labour to the market. While these concerns are important in a modern economy, such a narrow understanding obscures a deeper …
Kshirod Nag There are numerous tangible and historically grounded reasons for remembering B. R. Ambedkar. However, among the most salient and analytically significant aspects that distinguish him from other thinkers are his conception of the nation as a moral-social formation, his notion of freedom as the essence of life, and his articulation of a universal …
Kshirod Nag In general perception, Om Puri is not only regarded as an exception in the commercial cinema of Bollywood but also praised for his portrayals, which supposedly speak out the social realities of the times. Two of the celebrated portrayals performed by him are Layanya Bhiku in “Aakrosh” and Dukhi in “Sadgati”, representing …
Kshirod Nag The dictionary meaning of the very term ‘intolerance’ is ‘unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, behavior that differs from one’s own. One is categorized as ‘intolerant’ when s/he does not accept views, beliefs, and behaviors of others, precisely because the later differ with the former. Undoubtedly, we have been witnessing this similar attitude …
Kshirod Nag I joined JNU as an M.A. student of Sociology in the year 2008. I didn’t have any idea about ‘caste’, ‘class’, ‘gender’ ‘social change’, ‘revolution’, ‘Ambekarism’, ‘Marxism’, ‘Maoism’ or any other ‘ISM’ for that matter, except Gandhism and Hinduism (as if in India, one has a birthright to know these two isms). …
Kshirod Nag To engage with the ‘three responses’ by Nivedita Menon, Partha Chatterjee and Sudipto Kaviraj to Perry Anderson’s Indian Ideology (Verso, 2013) is quite an interesting exercise. Not exactly for any rich content or explanations by these ‘acclaimed’ intellectuals of our times, but more for the kind of approaches they have adopted to …
Kshirod Nag It certainly gives pleasure to see symbols as inspiring tools to motivate the generations to come. Contextually, we can take a look at the initiative taken by the state to confer the ‘Bharat Ratna’ on Sachin Tendulkar as one such symbol. It was felt necessary to honour a person who, undoubtedly, captured …
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule – Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Birth Anniversary Celebrations 2013, From April 9 – 14, 2013, At JNU, New Delhi [Via UDSF] ~ The Programme Schedule ~9th April, 2013, Tuesday 6:00 p.m. Inauguration of Cultural Week:Mr. Jagdish Singh, Administrative Officer, Engineering Dept, JNU, New Delhi Sabarmati Dhaba, JNUStreet Play “Vaikalpik Itihaas”by Bhasha …