Is India witnessing an unfederal moment?
“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...
Tide may be turning for African literature
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...
The elephant that didn’t become a lion
In 2014, Narendra Modi stormed the national and international stage like a rockstar. One of the first decisions of the nationalist BJP government was...
Is federalism a moat against autocracy?
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,...
Meritocracy in the Age of Mediocrity
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...
Outburst of Rage or moral outrage?
“Failure,” so goes the Chinese proverb, “is not falling down but refusing to get up.” Did the Arab Spring really fail? Ten years after...
New Latin American Left and its complex trajectories
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...
Vagaries of ‘Anything-can-happen’ world
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics”, Plato warned, “is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." The rise...
Migration is a mirror held up to all nations: Insights from migrant writers
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...
Latin America is inching slowly towards a change for the better
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...