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Everyday Religion

Of Speech and Song in the Shadow of Krishna

“Vrindavan devotee publics seem to have relegated desire and descended fully into the sadness of Radha.”
▶20-Feb-2023
Atreyee Majumder

A Sense of a Community

'The shared expression among women majlis during Moharram of an iconic grief that is both personal and communal seems to create a community of women who mourn, who share a sense of the lives of…
▶02-Feb-2021
Vidya Rao

Tiger-Charmers of the Sundarbans

The tiger-charmers of the Sundarbans have been seen by forest guards and scientists as unscrupulous. But the islanders argue that tiger-charmers are able to better communicate between human and…
▶09-Mar-2023
Annu Jalais

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

Transformations

Book
Book Review

History in the Service of Hindutva

For Savarkar, history was a critical tool in a war to protect the Hindu nation. A new book examines the relationship between history and politics in Savarkar's thought and braids together the…
▶27-Feb-2023
Srinath Raghavan

Hindu Spiritualism for a Neoliberal Age

The rise of tele-gurus signals a Hindu spirituality that resonates with the language of global capitalism, political Hindutva, and cultural consumption.
▶04-May-2022
Surya Prakash Upadhyay

Loud Mouths and Invisible Tails: The New Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan Debate

There is growing conviction that the nation, language, and religion are one. Hindi ideologues see only Hindi as authentically Indian and Hindu. The current rhetoric is reminiscent of the 'Hindi-…
▶23-Jun-2022
Vedita Cowaloosur

Hindutva's Freelancers

Mimetic and aspirational groups, only loosely connected to the BJP and the RSS, are propelling the growth of Hindutva in north India. They draw impunity from communalised forms of caste assertion and…
▶16-Feb-2022
Vishal Singh Deo, Akram Akhtar Choudhary

Macro-economy

India Derailed: A Falling Investment Rate and Deindustrialisation

Falling investment rates and declining manufacturing growth rates have marked the Indian GDP growth reversal since the mid-2010s. These structural defects have not yet been addressed. The current…
▶21-Feb-2023
R Nagaraj

Neoliberalism’s New Poster Child: Revisiting India’s “Growth Story”

Global investors and institutions have been hyping up the prospects for Indian economic growth in the medium term, but there is no evidence within India that the service sector and certainly not the…
▶30-Jan-2023
C.P. Chandrasekhar

Chasing Unicorns: India’s Dreams of a Digital Economy

India now has 100 unicorns They have generated such a level of enthusiasm that the country’s hopes now seem to rest on dreams of a digital economy. But questions must be raised about the nature and…
▶16-May-2022
Kaushik Jayaram

Global Economy: Between the Scylla of a Recession and the Charybdis of Price Inflation

The global economy is in uncertain and dangerous waters. Economies across the world are slowing down due to different reasons and inflation remains high. But there is no sign of widespread "…
▶07-Dec-2022
Partha Ray, Parthapratim Pal

The North East

Toxic Ecologies

The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has…
▶06-Aug-2020
Dolly Kikon

The Legal and the Lethal

AFSPA keeps apart ideas of law and justice; a separation that makes the Nagas 'killable', as in Oting. The law incorporates them into the Indian nation-state as rights-deprived subjects —…
▶22-Dec-2021
Jelle J.P. Wouters

The Many Lives of Rani Gaidinliu

The Sangh Parivar's valorisation of Rani Gaidilniu is a rare instance when a tribal leader from the North East is celebrated as a national icon over and above other — often Christian — leaders…
▶06-Apr-2022
Arkotong Longkumer
Book
Review

Sangh's Nation-Building Project in the North East

As the northeast of India grapples with the spread of right-wing propaganda and the politics of Hindutva, 'The Greater India Experiment' offers a rich ethnographic account of the twists and…
▶31-Aug-2022
Richard Kamei
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