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Ajay Gudavarthy
Are India’s Right-Wing Forces on Road to Implosion?
19 Oct 2020
The Right has utter disregard for rules and diversity of opinion: one day, its violence is bound to turn on itself.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Hathras Incident in the Context of Being Dalit and Middle Class
08 Oct 2020
Middle class Dalits face a dual pressure of being urban and Dalit. A fresh crop of Dalit leaders surmount this challenge.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Why India Must Rekindle Debate on Public Sector
03 Oct 2020
Farmers recently picked an unreliable public sector over a profiteering, delinquent private sector. India must strive to understand why.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Are Majoritarian Societies as Powerful as they Appear?
29 Sep 2020
What can and cannot work as an alternative strategy to the fear and violence generated by majoritarian regimes.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Anxious Leader, Passive Citizens
22 Sep 2020
The more reforms the Modi-led government pushes, the more his popularity may decline and popular resistance grow.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Rise of Authoritarian Regimes Amidst a Global Sense of Boredom
12 Sep 2020
A speech at midnight or 8 PM, a starlet in a risky situation, shake us out of ennui until we need our next fix of something scintillating.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Is it Possible to Foment Mass Hysteria in Indian Politics?
05 Sep 2020
The era of political accommodation makes social hysteria along caste cleavages unsustainable, and Muslims aren’t so dominant as to bolster ‘permanent’ fear and anxiety.
Manindra Thakur, Ajay Gudavarthy
What NEP Could Have Learnt from Delhi University and JNU
01 Sep 2020
Until the 1990s, openness informed India’s higher education push. Now there’s the market and ‘ancient wisdom’.
Ajay Gudavarthy
When Ascetics Stride Into Politics
07 Aug 2020
Opponents of majoritarianism need a new defensive strategy against the RSS’s ‘apolitical’ googly.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Why BJP Gets Away With Dislodging Governments
03 Aug 2020
Ordinary citizens will feel pushed into a corner until there is a popular street-level mobilisation by Opposition parties.