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Sudhansu Mohanty
Why Bertrand Russell is Relevant in Pandemic-Struck India
18 May 2021
A century-and-a-half ago, Russell warned that politics that taps into irrational fears and hate helps leaders evade responsibility and condemnation.
Ajay Gudavarthy
A Cure for Chronic Gloom: Simpler Pleasures
23 Jun 2020
Bertrand Russell believed that fear, envy and fatigue stand between modern life and enlightenment. Luckily, he also showed a way out.
Antara Ray Chaudhury
‘I Can’t Breathe’- Race in Everyday America
15 Jun 2020
Let us briefly visit the history of abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement in USA.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Psychology of a Lockdown: A Sudden Halt to Everything Familar is Traumatic
17 Apr 2020
Not just the economy, even society will need hand-holding until it learns to cope with the after-effects of this shut-down.
Neelambaran A
Anna University to Teach Upanishadas and Gita to Engineering Students
26 Sep 2019
Several political parties, academicians and students’ organisations have condemned the move by the university.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Mob Lynching Can’t be Tackled Without Taking on Brahminism
19 Jul 2019
What is needed is a new kind of anti-caste politics that is simultaneously sensitive to gender, religious minorities, backward classes and India’s perpetually-marginalised groups.