The Turbulent Future of Higher Education

Higher education in India no longer guarantees decent work in a changing and shrinking job market, even as its investment in liberal values is being challenged. Given the policy reforms and technological upheavals also underway, our universities face an uncertain future under an uncaring state.▶12-Oct-2022
Satish Deshpande

November 4, 2022

The turbulent future of higher education in India; Supreme Court's expansion of abortion rights; The first biography of George Fernandes; and more

Becoming Modern EP 2: Beyond the Great Doctors

The second episode of 'Becoming Modern: Healthcare and History in India' is about one of the central challenges of writing any kind of history: how to find and incorporate the voices of the…
▶18-Oct-2022
Suno India

Becoming Modern EP 1: History and Historians

In this introductory episode of 'Becoming Modern', host Kiran Kumbhar talks with Suno India co-founder Padma Priya about the importance of knowing the history of medicine and healthcare,…
▶18-Oct-2022
Suno India

Love's Verse: Craving Krishna in Modern Times

'Can the timelessness of extreme devotional love written across the past two millennia be measured, contained in the modern, postcolonial version of the English language? Is English a viable…
▶17-Oct-2022
Atreyee Majumder

Implications of the RTE Experience for EWS Quotas

The belief that goals can be independent of the means to pursue them assumes an all-powerful state capacity. The reality is that all policies entail implementation costs, and those targeting the…
▶12-Oct-2022
Ankur Sarin, Bhargav B.S.

The Turbulent Future of Higher Education

Higher education in India no longer guarantees decent work in a changing and shrinking job market, even as its investment in liberal values is being challenged. Given the policy reforms and…
▶12-Oct-2022
Satish Deshpande

Again an Age of Empire

The world is back in an ‘Age of Empire’. There are now Four Empires—the West or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, China, India, and Russia, all motivated by securing naked power and putting…
▶10-Oct-2022
Joan Martinez-Alier