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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: The Bihar dramaOpinion
    Dividing Lines: The Bihar drama

    Politics makes strange bedfellows and stran-ger enemies. When the elections in Bihar are advertised as a clash of titans...

    10 Nov 2015 7:32 AM IST

    Bhagwat’s new BharatOpinion
    Bhagwat’s new Bharat

    Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech on Vijayadasami at Nagpur has not received a serious...

    29 Oct 2015 12:00 PM IST

    Dividing Lines: No science of dissentOpinion
    Dividing Lines: No science of dissent

    Years ago, C.P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture which popularised the idea of two cultures. He argued that there was a...

    15 Oct 2015 6:28 AM IST

    Electoral versus ecological politicsOpinion
    Electoral versus ecological politics

    As India urbanised and politicised, Hinduism gave way to Hindutva

    11 Oct 2015 8:29 AM IST

    Reimagining GandhiOpinion
    Reimagining Gandhi

    Anniversaries are moments of conscience; they remind us of things we have forgotten. But, often, they are empty rituals...

    1 Oct 2015 7:07 AM IST

    Death of conscienceOpinion
    Death of conscience

    Disasters have a peculiar way of affecting the imagination. First, one has to recognise that disasters are not disasters...

    17 Sept 2015 12:14 PM IST

    Mother India, revisedOpinion
    Mother India, revised

    A country transforming itself, from a slow moving socialist to a fast breeder capitalist, needs new myths. The old myth...

    3 Sept 2015 7:28 AM IST

    Majority-o-cracyOpinion
    Majority-o-cracy

    Ever since the Velvet Revolution and the Arab Spring, democracy has become a global epidemic. All regimes want to be...

    27 Aug 2015 11:26 AM IST

    Banning porn is a tricky businessOpinion
    Banning porn is a tricky business

    If the politics of a regulation society were a pie chart, the Modi government would split into three sections. The first...

    19 Aug 2015 9:58 AM IST

    Pop goes MurthyOpinion
    Pop goes Murthy

    N.R. Narayana Murthy as co-founder of Infosys is one of the most iconic figures in India today. Along with men like...

    23 July 2015 10:19 AM IST

    Celebrating a very special manOpinion
    Celebrating a very special man

    As Tibet and the world celebrated his birthday on July 6, I wish to celebrate the presence of the Dalai Lama, a Tibetan...

    9 July 2015 11:24 AM IST

    Maggi adulterated my memory, not foodOpinion
    Maggi adulterated my memory, not food

    Memory and sentiment often go together. Memory is a sensorium, a vista of smells, sounds, a nostalgia for the touch,...

    11 Jun 2015 10:26 AM IST

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