2023

Press Release and the Resolution adopted at the FEDCUTA’s National Convention on “The Crisis of Higher Education in India”
The National Convention on The Crisis of Higher Education in India, organised by the FEDCUTA on 24 July 2023 at JNU was attended by a large number of Teachers’ Associations from across the country including Nagaland University Teachers’ Association, Assam University Teachers’ Association, Jamia Teachers’ Association, Delhi University Teachers’ Association, Aligarh (…)

[This is a slightly edited version of an extract from the recently published book Hindi Cinema and Society written by Bharat Dogra and Madhu Dogra (published by Saptarishi, pages 234, Paperback) ]
Hindi cinema has an overwhelming presence in Indian society. Whether it is a young man humming a romantic song constantly, or a girl trying to dress up like her favorite film star, these are only the more obvious signs of the presence of popular films in our life. Much more important are the many (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Indian Ideas of Freedom: B.R. Ambedkar, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, M.N. Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda
by Dennis Dalton
HarperCollins India Pages: xv + 519; Price: Rs 699
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Indian ideas of freedom dew deeply on indigenous traditions of thought, especially religious. But the men and women who led the long and arduous campaign for independence were no religious bigots. They incorporated Indic traditions in their focus on inner (…)

BOOK REVIEW
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Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)
by Zoya Hasan
Oxford University Press
23 August 2022 | 216 Pages
ISBN: 9780192863416
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The Grand Old Congress Party has for some time now been going through an existential crisis at the ideological and organizational level in current Indian politics. However, the Karnataka Election verdict (2023) has given a new lease of life to the Party. In (…)

* The Unfulfilled Promises of a Structurally Flawed GST: Assessing its Impact During Six Years of its Operation | Arun Kumar
* Growth Conundrum | Govind Bhattacharjee
* A Case Study on Working Women in Kashmir | Yasmin & Nabi
* Life of D.D. Kosambi: Brilliant Intellectual & Humanist | Kobad Ghandy
* Debating Hindutva | Subhash Gatade

Despite continued mob violence for three months in the Northeastern state of Manipur, which has led to 150 deaths, and the displacement of tens of thousands into refugee camps, not one word was uttered by the Prime Minister of India to express his condemnation and to offer sympathies to victims. And then suddenly on July 19, 2023, a video on social media of the violation of two Kuki women by a mob appeared. This is a video of violent assault by a mob from May 2023. As this video went ‘viral’ (…)

GST has been in operation since July 1, 2017. In the six years that have elapsed, has it fulfilled the promises that its proponents had vociferously claimed for it. It was billed as the second freedom since it was supposed to unify the `fragmented’ Indian market. That was the parallel drawn with 1947 which brought together the states to form India as a union of states. Promised Gains from GST
GST was supposed to benefit the people by, increasing GDP by 1 to 2 per cent, reducing inflation, (…)

Measurement of the GDP is central to a modern economy and its growth is essential for the stability of governments. But the GDP growth is based on increased consumption and production that cause continuous depletion of earth’s limited resources, and the process cannot go on indefinitely. At some point in time, the world must get reconciled to the idea of low growth or no growth, and be concerned with the stability of GDP rather than its growth. The emerging economic models like doughnut (…)

by Effat Yasmin & Sumair Nabi
Abstract:
Based on primary data this paper attempts to study the factors that determine workforce participation and level of empowerment among women. The data has been collected through a field survey from three districts viz. Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla of Kashmir Valley. Working women in the education, health, and banking sectors constitute the sample of the present study. The findings reveal that given a chance to exercise one’s job preferences, (…)

D. D. Kosambi is quite well-known in India and abroad for his unique contributions to the writing of Indian history. His dissenting professional life as a mathematician is relatively lesser known. Kobad Ghandy’s entry on the D. D. Kosambi Research Foundation (Mainstream, July 8, 2023) propels us to revisit his dissenting life, embedded in the narrative of his scholar-daughter, Meera Kosambi. (‘D D Kosambi: The Scholar and the Man’, RESONANCE, June 2011)
D. D. Kosambi started teaching (…)