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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.
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    Dividing Lines: Brand Modi - The remaking of India

    Brand Modi projected Modi as an act of conquest, an attempt by a rank outsider to conquer and domesticate Lutyens'...

    26 May 2017 1:04 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Why India now needs a new kind of OppositionOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Why India now needs a new kind of Opposition

    Today, it appears inevitable as the Opposition has virtually disappeared.

    12 May 2017 3:05 AM IST

    The leaders of the BJP predicted about their party becoming single largest party in AP in the next two years by gathering public support from grass-root levels.Opinion
    Hindutva as a tool for development'

    The selfie totalitarianism of the BJP deepens both concretely and abstractly.

    17 April 2017 6:07 AM IST

    The Uttarakhand High Court declaring rivers Ganga and Yamuna as living entities provides a fillip to conservationistsOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Humanising rivers An incomplete idea

    The language of the Uttarakhand judgment is almost telegraphic.

    2 April 2017 12:18 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: In Modi era, Oppn must change tacticsOpinion
    Dividing Lines: In Modi era, Oppn must change tactics

    Pseudo-development linked to the rise of an increasing authoritarian society is the battle before us.

    21 March 2017 12:45 AM IST

    They raise the bogey of patriotism to make sure that any dissent is seen as sedition and therefore a threat to patriotism and security.Nation
    The Power of Hate Speech

    Economic meltdown, refugee influx, terror attacks are leading to insecurities and distrust of communities and religions.

    13 March 2017 12:37 AM IST

    Our institutions need helpOpinion
    Our institutions need help

    As trade unions lapse into a meek silence, one sees their fate catching up with the media, specially newspapers.

    6 March 2017 5:01 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Corporate governance - Lessons for the futureOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Corporate governance - Lessons for the future

    At one level one almost senses that CSR was invented to mute NGO voluntarism.

    18 Feb 2017 12:28 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Dividing Lines: Khadi symbols - Mahatma vs Modi

    One actually sees the different incarnations of Mr Modi subvert the idea of Modi.

    20 Jan 2017 12:39 AM IST

    President-elect Donald Trump stands at the entrance of Mar-a-Lago and waves to reporters after meeting with Carlyle Group co-founder and co-CEO David Rubenstein, Wednesday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Of dull paradoxes & arid oxymorons

    Donald Trump showed that a repressed democracy comes up with caricatures, with exaggerations of its repressed self.

    31 Dec 2016 2:29 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Dividing Lines: How Modi is trying to rework idea of India

    Citizenship today is not a refuge, an act of homecoming, a set of entitlements.

    23 Dec 2016 12:41 AM IST

    People stand in a long queue to withdraw money at an ATM in Patna. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    In search of remedies

    The power of storytelling becomes crucial.

    24 Nov 2016 12:45 AM IST

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