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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: No good deed must go unpunishedOpinion
    Dividing Lines: No good deed must go unpunished

    Disasters not only disrupt society, they also distort its basic categories, creating inversions, disrupting normalcy and...

    18 Sept 2014 8:08 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Text & contextOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Text & context

    A political party which seeks a text book start often remains superficial, pretending that the preamble or the...

    21 Aug 2014 9:33 AM IST

    Reinventing the LeftOpinion
    Reinventing the Left

    Rudolf Heredia, a Jesuit sociologist and theologian, once asked me whether I could think of a way of escaping ideology...

    7 Aug 2014 10:16 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: A case for dyingOpinion
    Dividing Lines: A case for dying

    One of the most fascinating things about the 21st century is what I call the return of the body to the centrality of...

    24 July 2014 11:33 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Science and responsibilityOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Science and responsibility

    One of the most fascinating things about science is that it can no longer be seen as the thing under a lens

    26 Jun 2014 10:02 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Why we need AAPOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Why we need AAP

    The promises AAP made during the election do not disappear with defeat

    5 Jun 2014 8:14 AM IST

    The politics of the inaugurationOpinion
    The politics of the inauguration

    Excitement showed that Modi had not just invited neighbouring leaders but had attempted to create new neighbourhood...

    29 May 2014 6:23 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: In exile, programme a sleek Congress 2.0Opinion
    Dividing Lines: In exile, programme a sleek Congress 2.0

    As a party, Congress must exorcise itself and create a new ecology of perceptions

    15 May 2014 7:55 AM IST

    Epidemic of hysteriaOpinion
    Epidemic of hysteria

    Politics has lost its playfulness and generosity

    1 May 2014 9:25 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Fable for democracyOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Fable for democracy

    In seeking to avoid the violence of religion, it impoverishes its own domain

    17 April 2014 9:50 AM IST

    Dividing lines: New India will vote for a new ideaOpinion
    Dividing lines: New India will vote for a new idea

    A wonderful time to be in, full of rumours, waiting for a future that might surprise us all

    3 April 2014 9:46 AM IST

    Dividing Lines: Murder between fiction and factOpinion
    Dividing Lines: Murder between fiction and fact

    Without the legal sanitisation of the SIT report, Narendra Modi could not have been launched as PM

    20 March 2014 7:07 AM IST

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