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Sanjay Srivastava
The writer is a sociologist.
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The hypocrisy of our concern for workers trapped in Uttarkashi tunnelSubscriber Only
November 24, 2023 18:28 IST
The migrant labour force produces the visible signs of national pride — governments proudly proclaim the making of a new and global India — but itself becomes invisibilised
Tue, Nov 28, 2023
Maratha reservation: Why everyone wants a ‘sarkari naukri’ in New IndiaSubscriber Only
November 02, 2023 07:17 IST
It is all very well to speak of a market-led society and the spirit of free enterprise, but if this happens in a context of an overweening state presence in everyday life, no one is silly enough to actually believe it
Thu, Nov 02, 2023
In Palestine-Israel war, the violence of pure identitySubscriber Only
October 13, 2023 07:07 IST
The historical roots of contemporary Israeli-Jewish identity lie in acts of forgetting actual relations on the ground. Brute force – both Israeli and of its western allies – has ensured periods of unstable and inherently fragile peace
Fri, Oct 13, 2023
In the age of ‘Sanatan Dharma’ and cries of ‘go to Pakistan’, the nationalism of the poet and philosopherSubscriber Only
September 12, 2023 05:15 IST
Nehru is easy to criticise for being “alienated” from Indian lifeways but it is difficult to dismiss the philosopher Rahul Sankrityayan and the poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Tue, Sep 12, 2023
Communal violence in Gurgaon: Mono-religious cosmopolitanismSubscriber Only
August 03, 2023 19:45 IST
Enmeshed in ways of the past through means of the present, Gurgaon offers conditions ripe for religious vigilantism, tolerance for it
Fri, Aug 04, 2023
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Parliament, now, is a gated communitySubscriber Only
July 20, 2023 07:07 IST
Parliament continues to be a citadel, largely unconnected to the society it is meant to represent — sitting on top, rather than alongside it. The new Parliament House too does not speak the language of democratic symbolism
Thu, Jul 20, 2023
Women wrestlers have fought battles to break their silence, challenge the male order — and our national characterSubscriber Only
June 02, 2023 20:26 IST
Is our national pride only about winning medals and ignoring the actual lives of those who secure these medals in the face of extraordinary social restrictions and odds?
Thu, Jun 08, 2023
From Karnataka to Gurugram: What Gandhi and Ambedkar cannot tell us about contemporary IndiaSubscriber Only
May 18, 2023 13:03 IST
Questions about the nature of religion and caste in India today cannot be answered through mere invocations of what the “founding fathers” might have envisioned. We need to account for what has happened since then
Mon, May 22, 2023
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Rahul Gandhi points to changing state, its policy and actions. He also needs to grapple with new Aam AadmiSubscriber Only
March 04, 2023 18:05 IST
This will require deft handling of the ‘new’ ordinary Indian’s aspirations without abandoning the broader alternative vision underlined in his Cambridge University speech.
Sat, Mar 04, 2023
Sanjay Srivastava writes: With Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi’s stature is enhanced. But has it struck a wider chord with the people?Subscriber Only
January 30, 2023 12:37 IST
In a milieu characterised by a search for a homogenous national identity and anti-politics, BJY runs the risk of being interpreted as going against the “true” national interest at best and a political gimmick, at worst
Tue, Jan 31, 2023
Haldwani demolitions: The State blurs the distinction between legal and illegal — and punishes the poorSubscriber Only
January 05, 2023 13:34 IST
There is no public good in ‘bulldozer urbanism’. Demolitions and evictions that mainly affect the poor irreparably damage already vulnerable lives while also failing as public policy
Fri, Jan 06, 2023
What the camera in Virat Kohli’s hotel room reveals about changed landscape of private and publicSubscriber Only
November 02, 2022 17:16 IST
The great deal of hand wringing over the invasion of Virat Kohli’s privacy has been accompanied by seemingly endless circulation of the video clip. The line between outrage and enjoyment is as unclear as that between the alternating desire for publicity — that ethereal frisson of celebrity-ness — and revulsion over too much of it.
Thu, Nov 03, 2022
Supertech buildings’ demolition is a cinematic distraction from nexus between state and buildersSubscriber Only
August 29, 2022 18:59 IST
Sanjay Srivastava writes: It would be a tragedy if the spectacle of the Noida demolition comes to stand for how to tackle urban malaise. That requires a different approach
Wed, Aug 31, 2022
From Madras HC comments on mangalsutra to a survey in Karnataka, a troubling view of women emergesSubscriber Only
July 21, 2022 04:00 IST
Sanjay Srivastava writes: The gender of institutions – courts, bureaucracies, schools, civic associations – is not much discussed and yet, it is fundamental to both the circulation of ideas about women, men and those of other genders.
Thu, Jul 21, 2022
What the bulldozing of a food cart in Jahangirpuri saysSubscriber Only
April 27, 2022 03:50 IST
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Its fate could be a portent for anyone who doesn't submit to the demands of a single identity.
Wed, Apr 27, 2022
Burning of Thunberg’s images are symbolic warnings of possible fate that awaits woman seen as ‘too independent’Subscriber Only
February 17, 2021 03:30 IST
If the sight of a group of men torching images and effigies of a young woman does not make our stomachs churn, then, perhaps, we have become completely habituated to the idea of violence against women and past efforts to address the issues have been in vain.
Wed, Feb 17, 2021
The new ordinariness is the basis of majoritarianism. The ordinary person is no longer an empirical entitySubscriber Only
October 05, 2020 03:06 IST
The cult of new ordinariness appears to have taken a strong grip across a number of institutions that, in a democracy, have the serious responsibility of protecting empirical victims from the imagined ones.
Mon, Oct 05, 2020
India’s anti-COVID strategy is premised on a mistaken idea and a pretenceSubscriber Only
April 01, 2020 00:12 IST
Epidemics are social dramas whose plots are made from the bricks and mortar of local material. An understanding of this will tell us who lives, who dies and what kind of society emerges.
Wed, Apr 01, 2020
Big Brother In SchoolSubscriber Only
July 09, 2019 00:11 IST
Delhi government’s move to install CCTVs in classrooms is an ill-thought out idea.
Tue, Jul 09, 2019
At home and in the worldSubscriber Only
May 28, 2019 00:08 IST
Under PM Modi, the aspiration is for a new, global version of Indian modernity.
Tue, May 28, 2019
Misogyny, casteist attacks against Atishi are a product of a silent but salient warSubscriber Only
May 14, 2019 01:14 IST
When public life is presented as a war between good and evil regarding acceptable behaviour by women, the historically discriminated and minorities, and dissent to norms is seen as an abiding sin, then we are living in an era without the possibility of change.
Tue, May 14, 2019
Laws like Official Secrets Act conflate interests of particular parties with the greater goodSubscriber Only
March 13, 2019 00:32 IST
The Official Secrets Act of 1923 (OSA) must be one of the most egregious instances of a law that infantilises common citizens through the notion that they should not question the idea of the “secret” itself. It must be contested.
Wed, Mar 13, 2019
The unexamined collective lifeSubscriber Only
February 07, 2019 00:00 IST
Case against Mallikarjun Kharge, arrests of Hindu Mahasabha members, leave untouched a fundamental problem — the legal recourse forestalls a debate on national ideals
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
Delhi, after 1984Subscriber Only
December 26, 2018 00:29 IST
How does trauma affect cities that are — at the best of times — brittle networks of cooperation and sociability? In the wake of the riots, Delhi has carried the burden of that time, its spaces filling up with people but its senses bereft of how they might relate to each other.
Wed, Dec 26, 2018
A gated revolutionSubscriber Only
November 13, 2018 01:40 IST
Current forms of urban politics construct a new aam aadmi: The relatively privileged white-collar professional who feels he has been denied his rights due to ‘appeasement’ of the poor.
Tue, Nov 13, 2018Journalism of Courage
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