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Shiv Visvanathan
About the AuthorShiv Visvanathan
The writer is a member of Compost Heap, a group of academics and activists working on alternative imaginations.
    Dividing Lines: Of science, Gandhi and climate changeOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Of science, Gandhi and climate change

    Gandhi could combine the ethical, the political and the cognitive in new and experimental way.

    1 Dec 2018 1:46 AM

    An angry crowd shout slogans as they sit by bodies of victims of the train accident in Amritsar on Friday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Amritsar shows us our moral vacuum

    The tragedy of Amritsar is that we can get away with the story that no one was responsible in a causal sense.

    26 Oct 2018 8:40 PM

    Mahatma GandhiOpinion
    Notes for a Gandhian peace movement

    The challenge we have to propose for ourselves is how do we reinvent a peace movement for our time.

    7 Oct 2018 6:37 PM

    After 377, opening up to a new imaginationOpinion
    After 377, opening up to a new imagination

    The five-judge bench in the Navtej Singh Johar case did just that: it decriminalised homosexuality in India.

    17 Sept 2018 6:50 PM

    A relationship is now an act of personal or individual commitment. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Dividing Lines: New notions of freedom, adultery needed

    Adultery now has to be seen not within the context of property and patriarchy but in terms of new notions of freedom and...

    26 Aug 2018 2:17 AM

    Liberal arts do not begin with diktats and syllabi, but with storytelling. The return of storytelling is the first attempt to redeem education. Storytelling creates memory, returns orality to its place in society. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Dividing Lines: Why the liberal arts are crucial

    Orality links up to memory. Our street performances emphasise memory and the constant reinvention of memory.

    2 Aug 2018 2:50 AM

    Dredging material being dumped by Kamarajar Port in other parts of the Ennore Creek. (Photo: DC)Opinion
    Dividing Lines: An emerging wave of environmental politics

    Just as one wonders if one has reached a dead end, a new wave of environmental politics is emerging in Tamil Nadu.

    6 July 2018 1:53 AM

    We need to think about Kashmir in a new wayOpinion
    We need to think about Kashmir in a new way

    Mr Modi, unlike Keynes, believes we are all dead in the short run, and that there is no opportunity to experiment.

    25 Jun 2018 8:06 PM

    Insecurity may have more to do with the kind of experiences you have had in your past relationships.Opinion
    Dividing Lines: Power of Lists Men, women & new consent rules

    Women feel that so many of them have suffered for so long that it is time men suffer.

    14 April 2018 1:54 AM

    Actors Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan during a meeting in Chennai. (Photo: Asian Age/File)Opinion
    3 anchors of democracy have lost their power

    Science provides a generalised model of truth, objectivity, fairness and the need for rituals of experiment to verify...

    11 March 2018 7:17 PM

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Opinion
    Three crises in a search of a narrative

    Three crises haunted 2017 and we lack even a discourse, a language for dialogue.

    23 Jan 2018 7:15 PM

    The year of the missing: Wheres our humanity?Opinion
    The year of the missing: Where's our humanity?

    The media has its own rituals, its ways of creating idolatry and sustaining iconography.

    3 Jan 2018 9:55 PM

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