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May 1, 2019 · Transgression and the Social. A good entry point to a discussion on the nature of social relations in contemporary India is the book by U.R.Ananthamurthy, Samskara. There are three episodes in the book that can be seen as transgression in the Brahmin agrahara, and each produces a different societal response.
The Intrinsic Limits of Hindutva as an Ideology of the Indian State. The BJP has built an electoral juggernaut but the mishandling of the pandemic has shown that Hindutva as an ideology is a handicap in the running of a modern state. The challenge to the BJP will come…. 30-Jun-2021. Peter Ronald deSouza.
Jul 18, 2024 · The India Forum is India’s digital destination for the best long-form comment on contemporary issues presented in a reader-friendly magazine-like style.
Jul 15, 2024 · In this, bhakti is not an ossified category of devotional practice; instead it is a dynamic space. The bhakt, much like the citizen in Habermas’ public sphere, participates to enable the creation of not only their private truths, but also settle public debates very much like our institutional practice in modern life.
May 7, 2020 · Online and blended education modes have been among the most rapidly growing industries in the past decade. A Forbes report estimated the e-learning market would reach $325 billion by 2025. KPMG and Google had in 2016 projected India’s online education market to be $1.96 billion in 2021, with a total of 9.5 million users.
Sep 23, 2024 · Transgression of social norms typically has adverse cascading effects on the entire family and provides additional fodder for policing women’s movements. A recent study provides indirect evidence on how norms may interact with marriage and labour markets.
Sep 30, 2021 · Every transgression of the individual, a traffic ticket, a credit default, or a court case, could become a permanent part of the profile. The state could conceivably construct an index of social behaviour for a citizen or a resident as in China 1 In China, a citizen scorecard based on a system of social credit is reportedly used to black list law breakers or conversely incentivise ...
‘Transgression’: Explaining contemporary India Complex societal transformations can be assessed through their changing normative structures. One can analyse the different social domains in India by focussing on the key concept of ‘transgression’…
Sep 26, 2022 · 100% 200%. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya. By Akshaya Mukul. Penguin Random House India, 2022. Akshaya Mukul has done us hacks in academia a serious disservice by producing such a meticulous biography of the litterateur Agyeya. He has made extensive use of the Agyeya archive which – unusually for the Hindi literary ...
The India Forum is India’s digital destination for the best reflection and long-form comment on contemporary issues presented in a reader-friendly magazine-like style.
