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Sanjay Srivastava
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Women wrestlers have fought battles to break their silence, challenge the male order — and our national character
June 02,2023 20:26:13 PM
Is our national pride only about winning medals and ignoring the actual lives of those who secure these medals in the face of extraordinary social restrictions and odds?
Thu, Jun 08, 2023
From Karnataka to Gurugram: What Gandhi and Ambedkar cannot tell us about contemporary IndiaPremium Story
May 18,2023 13:03:17 PM
Questions about the nature of religion and caste in India today cannot be answered through mere invocations of what the “founding fathers” might have envisioned. We need to account for what has happened since then
Mon, May 22, 2023
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Rahul Gandhi points to changing state, its policy and actions. He also needs to grapple with new Aam AadmiPremium Story
March 04,2023 18:05:05 PM
This will require deft handling of the ‘new’ ordinary Indian’s aspirations without abandoning the broader alternative vision underlined in his Cambridge University speech.
Sat, Mar 04, 2023
Sanjay Srivastava writes: With Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi’s stature is enhanced. But has it struck a wider chord with the people?Premium Story
January 30,2023 12:37:15 PM
In a milieu characterised by a search for a homogenous national identity and anti-politics, BJY runs the risk of being interpreted as going against the “true” national interest at best and a political gimmick, at worst
Tue, Jan 31, 2023
Haldwani demolitions: The State blurs the distinction between legal and illegal — and punishes the poorPremium Story
January 05,2023 13:34:21 PM
There is no public good in ‘bulldozer urbanism’. Demolitions and evictions that mainly affect the poor irreparably damage already vulnerable lives while also failing as public policy
Fri, Jan 06, 2023
What the camera in Virat Kohli’s hotel room reveals about changed landscape of private and publicPremium Story
November 02,2022 17:16:55 PM
The great deal of hand wringing over the invasion of Virat Kohli’s privacy has been accompanied by seemingly endless circulation of the video clip. The line between outrage and enjoyment is as unclear as that between the alternating desire for publicity — that ethereal frisson of celebrity-ness — and revulsion over too much of it.
Thu, Nov 03, 2022
Supertech buildings’ demolition is a cinematic distraction from nexus between state and buildersPremium Story
August 29,2022 18:59:46 PM
Sanjay Srivastava writes: It would be a tragedy if the spectacle of the Noida demolition comes to stand for how to tackle urban malaise. That requires a different approach
Wed, Aug 31, 2022
From Madras HC comments on mangalsutra to a survey in Karnataka, a troubling view of women emergesPremium Story
July 21,2022 04:00:26 AM
Sanjay Srivastava writes: The gender of institutions – courts, bureaucracies, schools, civic associations – is not much discussed and yet, it is fundamental to both the circulation of ideas about women, men and those of other genders.
Thu, Jul 21, 2022
What the bulldozing of a food cart in Jahangirpuri saysPremium Story
April 27,2022 03:50:29 AM
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Its fate could be a portent for anyone who doesn't submit to the demands of a single identity.
Wed, Apr 27, 2022
Burning of Thunberg’s images are symbolic warnings of possible fate that awaits woman seen as ‘too independent’Premium Story
February 17,2021 03:30:35 AM
If the sight of a group of men torching images and effigies of a young woman does not make our stomachs churn, then, perhaps, we have become completely habituated to the idea of violence against women and past efforts to address the issues have been in vain.
Wed, Feb 17, 2021
The new ordinariness is the basis of majoritarianism. The ordinary person is no longer an empirical entityPremium Story
October 05,2020 03:06:06 AM
The cult of new ordinariness appears to have taken a strong grip across a number of institutions that, in a democracy, have the serious responsibility of protecting empirical victims from the imagined ones.
Mon, Oct 05, 2020
India’s anti-COVID strategy is premised on a mistaken idea and a pretencePremium Story
April 01,2020 00:12:10 AM
Epidemics are social dramas whose plots are made from the bricks and mortar of local material. An understanding of this will tell us who lives, who dies and what kind of society emerges.
Wed, Apr 01, 2020
Big Brother In SchoolPremium Story
July 09,2019 00:11:41 AM
Delhi government’s move to install CCTVs in classrooms is an ill-thought out idea.
Tue, Jul 09, 2019
At home and in the worldPremium Story
May 28,2019 00:08:05 AM
Under PM Modi, the aspiration is for a new, global version of Indian modernity.
Tue, May 28, 2019
Misogyny, casteist attacks against Atishi are a product of a silent but salient warPremium Story
May 14,2019 01:14:54 AM
When public life is presented as a war between good and evil regarding acceptable behaviour by women, the historically discriminated and minorities, and dissent to norms is seen as an abiding sin, then we are living in an era without the possibility of change.
Tue, May 14, 2019
Laws like Official Secrets Act conflate interests of particular parties with the greater goodPremium Story
March 13,2019 00:32:53 AM
The Official Secrets Act of 1923 (OSA) must be one of the most egregious instances of a law that infantilises common citizens through the notion that they should not question the idea of the “secret” itself. It must be contested.
Wed, Mar 13, 2019
The unexamined collective lifePremium Story
February 07,2019 00:00:32 AM
Case against Mallikarjun Kharge, arrests of Hindu Mahasabha members, leave untouched a fundamental problem — the legal recourse forestalls a debate on national ideals
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
Delhi, after 1984Premium Story
December 26,2018 00:29:02 AM
How does trauma affect cities that are — at the best of times — brittle networks of cooperation and sociability? In the wake of the riots, Delhi has carried the burden of that time, its spaces filling up with people but its senses bereft of how they might relate to each other.
Wed, Dec 26, 2018
A gated revolutionPremium Story
November 13,2018 01:40:56 AM
Current forms of urban politics construct a new aam aadmi: The relatively privileged white-collar professional who feels he has been denied his rights due to ‘appeasement’ of the poor.
Tue, Nov 13, 2018
How to Repair a Broken SystemPremium Story
July 15,2017 01:05:26 AM
Universities must diversify and innovate to serve the needs of the majority
Sat, Jul 15, 2017
For A Culture Of CriticismPremium Story
March 22,2017 00:43:04 AM
Re-thinking the relationship between privileged universities and the rest is essential
Wed, Mar 22, 2017
The content of charismaPremium Story
December 09,2016 00:02:24 AM
Jayalalithaa’s appeal lay in her ability to help her followers straddle multiple worlds.
Fri, Dec 09, 2016The choices of Karva ChauthPremium Story
October 15,2011 03:19:49 AM
Why are so many economically independent women keen to participate in rituals that would seem to treat men as superior beings?
Wed, Oct 19, 2016
Oy, Chak de Phatte!Premium Story
July 30,2005 00:00:00 AM
A recent Indian Express article reported that following the phenomenal commercial success of the television talent-hunt show Indian Idol, a ...
Sat, Jul 30, 2005