The Uniform Civil Code in Nehru’s Vision as Debate & Consensus-Building Praxis

July 30, 2023 The Beacon 0

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Once again the Uniform Civil Code has surfaced with Prime Minister Narendra Modi opening that Pandora’s Box as a as a electioneering talking point that does not create consensus through debate on its intricacies and complexities. Compare that with Nehru’s vision on the Hindu Code Bills from the late 1940s on meant to explain the grounds for reform and take the Opposition along. Debate as praxis …[Read More]…

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Enfolding and Unfolding In Knowing the Self and the Other*. Chaturvedi Badrinath

May 12, 2023 Chaturvedi Badrinath 0

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What are the means to knowledge? How do we know that what we know is free from error? What is the nature of error in knowing? What is truth and what are its criteria? These questions relate in the first place to the knowing of the self and the knowing of the other in their mutual relationship; questions not just for philosophers alone but for rdinary people, Chaturvedi Badrinath averred. …[Read More]…

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Fifty Years of Chipko Movement Clear Pathways For Other Struggles to Save Ecosystems, and Life

January 29, 2023 Bharat Dogra 0

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On the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Chipko Movement that caught popular imagination and became almost a household name in India Bharat Dogra who was closely associated with it does a recap of its strategic role in asserting peoples’ rights through satyagraha and its overall takeaways we need to remember as we ponder the devastation in the eco-sensitive Himalayan regions.…[Read More]…

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Ami kaan pete roii: Epistolarities Reinvented. Reading Leela Majumadar’s Manimalaii

April 10, 2022 Nandini Bhattacharya 0

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Radio communications made their appearance in India in 1929 with the British – controlled Indian Broadcasting Company, and with emergence of regional centres such as the Calcutta Radio Station. Against this backdrop Nandini Bhattacharya examines the importance of Manimala, the epistolary novelette by Leela Mazumdar in a dialogic format produced by the structure of letters to the radio hosts seeking advice, guidance companionship …[Read More]…

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FROM A ‘COMMUNITY OF BEINGS’ TO ‘THE ECONOMY OF VIOLENCE’ AND…BACK?

January 30, 2021 The Beacon 0

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(First published June 20 2018)

India’s rich heritage of conservation visualized the world as a “Community of Beings” involving humans and other beneficent elements–hills and rivers, woods and trees, flora and fauna–according such beings respect, even veneration says Madhav Gadgil. Then colonialism and free India’s ‘Economy of Violence’ broke its back. But the healing is on. …[Read More]…

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