“A single constitution for a country of many and varied sub-nationalities,” said veteran Indian bureaucrat Nirmal Kumar Mukarji, was “a centralizing anachronism.” The tissues and textures...
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Aishwarya Parihar Introduction First the Latin American and later the Indian writers stormed the global literary scene and became a vibrant...
In 2014, Narendra Modi stormed the national and international stage like a rockstar. One of the first decisions of the nationalist BJP government was to adopt...
The rogues’ gallery of autocratic rulers has been growing for some years now. It is no more an age of much-reviled ‘tinpot’ dictators. Today, we have...
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Sophia Thomas* Meritocracy, political theorist Hannah Arendt famously says, “contradicts the principle of equality. Without equality, it is no less than...
“Failure,” so goes the Chinese proverb, “is not falling down but refusing to get up.” Did the Arab Spring really fail? Ten years after it sprang...
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Shimone Jaini The rise and fall of a leftist government in Latin America evoke passion, nostalgia, optimism and rhetorical exuberance among...
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics”, Plato warned, “is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” The rise of dangerously...
Authors:Ash Narain Roy and Aishwarya Parihar* Great Indian poet and first Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature Rabindranath Tagore’s words are highly instructive for...
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Shimone Jaini* Every utopia sooner or later turns into a dystopia. Why, then, do Latin Americans fancy themselves constructing alternative utopias?...
