Ajay Gudavarthy : All

Ajay Gudavarthy
Why is the Right Wing on Ascendance?
21 Sep 2019
There is need to counter the legitimate anxieties that are pushing people towards the Right, without necessarily agreeing with how those anxieties are being articulated by the Right.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Modi After 100 Days: Scripted, Yet Spontaneous!
16 Sep 2019
Despite bankruptcy of ideas, economic slump and a sense of fear pervading society, Modi is playing on the optics of ‘something more important’ taking place.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Life After NRC: How to Control Hindu Rashtra Fantasies
03 Sep 2019
Moral pleas against majoritarianism won’t do the trick after NRC, triple talaq, Kashmir and lynching.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Are Muslims Targets of Envy or Phobia?
23 Aug 2019
Muslims are both victims and targets of a modernity that has hollowed out emotions.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Why Kashmir Will Boomerang on India
18 Aug 2019
Those who have willingly ceded today will lose their rights tomorrow.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Freedom From Liberation, Salvation From Restraint
15 Aug 2019
This Independence day, a fearful abyss is winking back at us.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Does Washing Dalit’s Feet Make Modi Gandhian?
01 Aug 2019
The Right appropriates Gandhi’s grasp on social dynamics to cloak its disregard for transforming the collective.
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.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Why Hindutva is Anti-Hindu
05 Jul 2019
There is a need to progressively resignify what being a Hindu means.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Zaira Wasim and Limits of Liberalism
03 Jul 2019
The irony of liberalism is that those least invested in principles of choice are those who invoke it most vociferously.