OPINION
‘Minding Protests’: Poverty of Philosophy!
In its editorial ‘Minding Protests’, published on 23 April 2018, Kashmir Images complains about the menace of public protests that...
Expecting ‘education’ to be apolitical is a flawed idea
By: MIR SEENEEN While majority of the people especially the ones constituting the Intellectual Class, have resorted to censorious criticism...
The changing structure of riots
BY: Shiv Visvanathan The recent riots in West Bengal and Bihar have got stuck in the gullet of Indian democracy....
Between Ai Weiwei and Bashar al-Assad, we wonder
BY: Hamid Dabashi On a fine early afternoon in late March a young German-Iranian friend and I walked into the...
Panchayati raj at 25
BY: Mani Shankar Aiyar I write this as I fly to Thiruvananthapuram on April 24 for the Silver Jubilee National...
Urdu and patriotism
BY: Mohammed Ayoob The language that gave the country the most popular slogan of the independence movement and produced unmatched...
Banning Tuition Centers: Sweeping problems of Education under the carpet?
Education Minister, Altaf Bukhari, is right in saying that “the private tuition centers are proving to be a distraction for...
A summer of gathering discontent
BY: Sanjay Hegde At the First Round Table Conference in 1930, B.R. Ambedkar reminded his audience: “The men who fought...
No more violence in Asifa’s name, please!
Public protests play an important part in the civil, political, economic, social and cultural life of all societies. Protests encourage the development of an...
Fiddling with a WMD
BY: UPENDRA BAXI The Indian Constitution has, among several unwritten basic human rights, the right to have miracles performed...