There are many ways to divide Indian society, and unfortunately we seem to be pretty good at all of them. There are material inequalities: in terms of asset ownership, incomes, consumption, access to finance, control over physical and natural resources,…
The spat between the BJP-Led government and the NDA over celebrations to mark Nehru’s 125th birth anniversary must not divert attention from one important fact. There has been for around three decades now an explicit or implicit rejection of and…
The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, at least the image through which it is expressed, of celebrities descending from limousines in sundry locations to sweep away the “clean garbage” (mainly leaves and such like) which have been carefully deposited there by official…
On the face of it, the campaign to clean India is something that obviously must be welcomed and accepted by every right-thinking citizen: something unexceptionable in intent and clearly desirable in stated outcomes. But it suffers from the same deficiencies…
