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Civil Society, Victim Industry and Keralam

“Chithralekha is a symbol and sign of the marginalization that Dalits face in modern Kerala”, notes the solidarity mission in its report after visiting Payyanur to ascertain the facts about the hoodlums stigmatizing and victimizing Chitralekha. It is salutary that some of the civil society activists and groups in Keralam after some [...]

Damodar Prasad

Death Anniversary of a Marxist

A year after TK Ramachandran had left us many have started idolizing him, it seems. One may find articles in highly conservative periodicals promoting a romanticized image of TK. The kind of interest shown on TK could be of several reasons. The icon-believers may have not come out of his [...]

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Unbearable Lightness of Being Ashis Nandy

Ashis Nandy Photo: Mohan Trivedi

There is a peculiar charm in Ashis Nandy’s arguments. Where does this charm come from? It originates at same point as all radical thinking begins with, which is upsetting the conventions. Ashis Nandy upturns the convention in which most Indian middle class, his ardent readers, so to [...]