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Sanjay Srivastava
The writer is a sociologist.
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Best of Both Sides: In the West, migrants make for convenient villainsSubscriber Only
September 19,2025 07:11:55 AM
They have been woven into the moral fabric of receiving countries as the evil that is required to prove the goodness of the hosts.
Fri, Sep 19, 2025
The state, urban India and the fear of the ‘foreigner’ that will hurt us allSubscriber Only
August 11,2025 07:35:21 AM
Those who currently feel that what is happening to the urban poor cannot happen to them should carefully consider the fact that while walls and gates may save them from their imagined enemies, the logic of the state is quite different. Walled utopias are not as hardy as imagined
Mon, Aug 11, 2025
In ‘Millennium City’ Gurugram, problem isn’t flooding or infrastructure — it’s the rural state of mindSubscriber Only
July 14,2025 19:30:48 PM
Urban life in Gurugram is largely organised through the idea that there is no public except that which belongs to one's family, caste and class circuits. It is this that also lies at the heart of what passes for urban planning
Thu, Jul 17, 2025
The Indian nationalist hero had scientific temper. Now, he just has techSubscriber Only
June 13,2025 13:29:50 PM
The Five-Year-Plan Hero had mastered the technologies but he was never just a technologist. Today, to try and think beyond technology (the task of scientific thinking) and whether book knowledge should have any connection with real life – democracy, equality and discrimination – is pointless activism
Fri, Jun 13, 2025
Counting caste, confronting contradictionsSubscriber Only
May 04,2025 13:47:34 PM
Caste lives on in identity even when its hierarchy is condemned. A census alone won’t resolve these contradictions
Sun, May 04, 2025
Young Indians are risk takers. But they have no shelter from the stormSubscriber Only
April 21,2025 07:35:03 AM
What we have is a circumstance where there is a greater appetite for risk that exists alongside a significant reduction in the capacity for dealing with the harm that risky activity frequently brings
Mon, Apr 21, 2025
Rahul Sankrityayan, the forgotten thinker needed for a world dividedSubscriber Only
April 14,2025 16:47:20 PM
The ‘ghumakkad’ (wanderer) avoids the pitfalls of reducing home and belonging to one form of identity. In a world that has increasingly turned to the idea of fixed identities — and one that suppresses the voices that question it — Sankrityayan’s ‘ghumakkadi’ is worth pondering upon.
Mon, Apr 14, 2025
Deportations in the US may not be an aberrationSubscriber Only
March 22,2025 07:20:52 AM
Instead, they could be the consequences of the real aspects of American identity
Sat, Mar 22, 2025
Trump, Zelenskyy and the hypocrisy of ‘polite’ diplomacySubscriber Only
March 03,2025 12:41:36 PM
Outrage over Trump’s treatment of the Ukrainian president distracts from the long history of Euro-American leaders who bullied and damaged the world in pursuit of their countries’ interests
Sat, Mar 08, 2025
AAP’s electoral calamity in Delhi tells us how successfully the BJP has managed to reinvent the ‘aam aadmi’Subscriber Only
February 08,2025 18:54:36 PM
The BJP has carefully put forward the idea that the “ordinary person” is not the one who may be socially and economically marginalised. It is the one who has been marginalised by earlier political dispensations. This “ordinary” Delhi resident is a middle-class citizen. And that it is middle-classness that can serve as a criticism of earlier forms of politics.
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Picture of a Gurugram farmer beside the London Bridge frames aspiration of our timesSubscriber Only
January 02,2025 07:12:14 AM
Today, gods come together with land markets, global financial and statist processes and worldliness isn't separate from divine mysteries
Thu, Jan 02, 2025
Why Opposition is wrong to assume BJP is on the defensive over Amit Shah’s comments on AmbedkarSubscriber Only
December 23,2024 12:16:24 PM
Dalits can valourise Ambedkar’s ideas at the same time that they may vote for a party, the BJP for example. It would be patronising to think that their worldview is guided by just one factor.
Mon, Dec 23, 2024
Tourism in Goa is more than tourists being tourists — it is about a limited Indian imaginationSubscriber Only
November 15,2024 19:16:45 PM
India may be a country with many different languages, religions and ethnicities, however, a very new social activity (that of tourism) continues to be enacted through the lenses of majoritarianism. We interact with those who are different from us through our own frameworks of beliefs and behaviours.
Mon, Nov 18, 2024
In Mumbai Gymkhana today, echoes of a regressive culture from 19th-century CalcuttaSubscriber Only
October 27,2024 16:33:55 PM
In a time when the idea of a ‘majority’ has so significantly become identified with religious identity, it is worth asking what the fate of cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues’s membership to the Khar Gymkhana might have been in other circumstances
Fri, Nov 01, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Why we must talk about casteSubscriber Only
September 07,2024 07:05:44 AM
Not talking it only entrenches the existing distribution of cultural and economic wealth
Sat, Sep 07, 2024
PM’s I-Day speech: Viksit Bharat, nationalism and contradictionsSubscriber Only
August 15,2024 15:57:53 PM
The PM seemed to imply that “reform” is stymied by “debate clubs” and their participants. And that there is a contradiction between the national interest and the questioning of how we might define it
Fri, Aug 16, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: For a nation that aspires to Olympic glory, what is the role of the state?Subscriber Only
August 11,2024 12:54:52 PM
There is a difference between promoting physical activity among the general population and sponsoring elite sporting activity.
Tue, Aug 13, 2024
Kanwar yatra and the perils of nostalgic HinduismSubscriber Only
July 23,2024 16:08:36 PM
Current reinvention of Hinduism — in terms of purity and impurity — owes a great deal to transformation in the cultures of nostalgia. It breaks the connection between actual conditions of life and its romanticised version, and those who are expected to take part in have no role in its propagation
Sun, Jul 28, 2024
Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi in Parliament: The Kishkinda KandSubscriber Only
July 03,2024 20:18:53 PM
Two contrasting speeches in the 18th Lok Sabha — by Leader of Opposition and Prime Minister — show that myths have no monopolists, their potency lies in developing an appropriate language of invocation
Thu, Jul 04, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes | Election results: Triumph of society and independent thoughts over statismSubscriber Only
June 04,2024 19:50:22 PM
Threats to democratic culture do not come from hyper or bigotry-inspired nationalism. The most fundamental threat to cultures of dissent derives from the rise of the charismatic state
Sun, Jun 16, 2024
Galgotias University is not alone: Empty jargon at institutes mirrors students’ political slogansSubscriber Only
May 09,2024 17:43:23 PM
Public anger over the protestors’ lack of knowledge about matters of public and private interest about which they were ostensibly protesting is entirely justified. However, this is not an episode that is necessarily about the end of critical thinking at one institution whose students were found to be particularly ill-informed
Sat, May 11, 2024
UK’s Rwanda Bill: Why it’s a solution that doesn’t workSubscriber Only
April 25,2024 08:00:18 AM
The idea that British ‘sovereignty’ is under threat from extra-national forces, including refugees and international courts, echoes parts of the Brexit narrative.
Thu, Apr 25, 2024
Elections 2024: Electoral bond revelations concern all citizens. But will it matter to voters?Subscriber Only
March 16,2024 16:18:47 PM
Electoral bonds are a national rather than a sectional issue. However, given the consolidation of the sectional, modified voting public, they are unlikely to attract much voter backlash against the party that appears to have benefitted the most
Sun, Mar 24, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Byju’s fall and the failure of fast-food educationSubscriber Only
February 26,2024 15:52:02 PM
The salve for anxieties regarding uncertain futures cannot be found in decrepit, quick-fix and technocratic attitudes towards education
Thu, Feb 29, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: The temple in Ayodhya is more about the present than the pastSubscriber Only
January 23,2024 10:01:11 AM
It showcases the move towards spirituality as a matter of spectacular display, which is located in cultures of contemporary Indian modernity
Fri, Jan 26, 2024Journalism of Courage
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