Dr Ravi Sinha's special lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series on 26 th...
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative Special Lecture Topic: 'Science as a Cultural Ideal Speaker: Dr. Ravi...
View ArticleProf Manoj Kumar Jha at Democracy Dialogues on 11th June, 2023
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative23th LectureTopic: Reimagining Jawaharlal Nehru Today Speaker: Prof Manoj...
View ArticleHow to Draw a Line on the Ground-Ravi Sinha
Comments for the Washington DC Diaspora Program on “Karnataka Election Outcome and the Two Contesting Ideologies” Ravi SinhaI must begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert on how elections are won or...
View Articleराजनीति की ज़मीन पर विचार की रेखा - रवि सिन्हा
“कर्नाटक चुनाव नतीजे और दो प्रतिद्वंदी विचारधारायें” विषय पर Washington DC Diaspora द्वारा आयोजित कार्यक्रम में प्रस्तुत टिप्पणीरवि सिन्हामैं अपनी बात एक खंडन के साथ शुरू करना चाहूंगा। मैं पहले ही...
View ArticleWhat Manipur is Witnessing Today ..
Subhash GatadeDecades are a short time in a nation’s journey.The sexual assault on three Kuki-Zo women and their being paraded naked by a frenzied mob in Manipur- with the police allegedly looking the...
View ArticleDebating Hindutva
Subhash Gatade Background A close friend of decades prodding you to read / listen to something and ask for your views is such a great moral incentive which nobody would refuse.The following note is an...
View ArticleProfessor Pranab Bardhan at Democracy Dialogues on 27 August 2023
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative24th LectureTheme: The Erosion Of Liberal Democracy in India: An Analysis Speaker: Prof...
View ArticleDestroying A Legacy to Save it ?
Subhash GatadeCourtesy - Rediff.comIt was perhaps mid sixties or early seventies when US had resorted to continuous bombing to break the morale of the Vietnamese people.When questioned by a reporter...
View ArticleVISHWA GURU'S SLEUTHS !
Subhash GatadeImage Courtesy- www.outlookindia.com Writers, scholars, artists have always worried the powers that be.There was a time when the Parisian police had been given the onerous task of...
View Article(Democracy Dialogue lecture Video) The Erosion Of Liberal Democracy in India:...
Prof Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, delivred the 24th Democracy Dialogues Lecture on August 27, 2023.Topic : The Erosion Of Liberal Democracy in India: An AnalysisA Brief Outline of...
View ArticleProfessor Ashutosh Varshney at Democracy Dialogues on 15th October, 2023
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative25th LectureTheme: India’s Democratic Longevity and its Hugely Troubled Trajectory Speaker:...
View Article(Democracy Dialogue lecture Video) India’s Democratic Longevity and its...
Professor Ashutosh Varshney ( Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University ), delivered the 25th Democracy Dialogues Lecture on 15 October,...
View ArticleProfessor Mridula Mukherjee at Democracy Dialogues on 19 November 2023
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative26th LectureTheme: Who’s Afraid of Jawaharlal Nehru? Speaker: Professor Mridula Mukherjee...
View Article(Democracy Dialogue lecture Video) Who’s Afraid of Jawaharlal Nehru?By...
Professor Mridula Mukherjee ( (Professor of Modern Indian History ( Retd), Centre for Historical Studies, JNU) ), delivered the 26th Democracy Dialogues Lecture on 19 November 2023 Summary :In his...
View ArticleMani Shankar Aiyer at Democracy Dialogues on 17th December 2023
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative27th LectureTheme: The Leaching of Constitutional Democracy Speaker: Mr Mani Shankar Aiya Date and Time: 17...
View Articleअजेयता का मिथक !
2024 में मोदी की वापसी होगी या 2004 की होगी पुनरावृत्ति?- सुभाषगाताडेCourtesy - www.quora.com(1)2024 कीशुरूआतमेंभारतएकप्रचंडबदलावकीदहलीजपरखड़ाहै.सभीजनतंत्राप्रेमी,...
View ArticleWaiting to Become Eichmann? Unpacking the Moral Relativism of a People
Subhash Gatade “They took so much away from us that they ended up taking away our fear”— Message scrawled on a placard in a women’s march in Spain’How does Justice feel?’A difficult query to answer but...
View Article(Video) The Leaching of Constitutional Democracy By Mani Shankar Aiya
Mani Shankar Aiya delivered the 27th Democracy Dialogues Lecture on 17th December 2023Theme On the face of it, we are an on-going democracy. We have a Constitution which has been honoured by the...
View Article(Democracy Dialogues Series Video) Our History, Their History, Whose History?...
Prof Romila Thapar delivered the 28th Democracy Dialogues Lecture on 28 th January 2024Abstract My purpose in this talk would be to examine the link between history and particular kinds of nationalism....
View ArticleProfessor Rajeev Bhargava @Democracy Dialogues on 31 March 2024
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative29th LectureTheme: Democracy and Religion in Modern India: Critical and Self-critical Reflections Speaker: Professor...
View Article(Video) Democracy and Religion in Modern India: Critical and Self-critical...
Professor Rajeev Bhargava delivered the 29th Democracy Dialogues Lecture on 31th March 2024Abstract "It is widely accepted that 'secular' is an alien category in India. This is too simplistic a view....
View ArticleProf Sucheta Mahajan @ Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series on 28 April 2024
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative30th LectureTheme: Secularism in a Religious Mode ?- Gandhi's Practice during Partition ' Speaker: 'Prof Sucheta...
View Article(Video)Bhakti Era in North India - A Talk by Dr. Ravi Sinha
Dr. Ravi Sinha, Marxist Scholar and author delivered a talk on 'Bhakti Streams of Religious Movements in Medieval North IndiaPlease find pasted below a YouTube link of the lecture. Main Presentation...
View ArticleDr. Parakala Prabhakar @ Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series on 26th May 2024
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )Organised by New Socialist Initiative31th LectureTheme: The Political Economy of New India Speaker: Dr. Parakala Prabhakar(Author, economist and public...
View ArticleBetween Axiality and Modernity - Dr. Ravi Sinha
Bhakti Era as the Plebeian Plateau in the Civilizational Landscape of IndiaWe have by now devoted several sessions to mapping the millennial trajectory of the Bhakti Movement across the history and the...
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