(To be published in Karigar Nazariya ) नयी सरकार बनने के बाद विकास के नाम पर गतिविधियाँ और भी तेज़ होती जा रही हैं. विदेशी पूँजी निवेश ...

If you are like me, you might have at some point dismissed the 1980s as the "lost decade" for Hindi cinema. Sure there might ha...

An article on the 2014-2015 Indian Budget published at sanhati.com . Abstract: The 2014-2015 Budget largely carries forward the neolib...

[Note: I am returning to blogging on this site after  nearly four years. I hope to continue with a series of posts on Urdu poetry....

I have blogged before about the " little qawwali traditions " referring to the countless qawwals who sing at small town dargahs al...

During my stay in Varanasi for my PhD field work this past year, I sat down for a chat with long-time political activists Sunil and Chitra S...

Another article (unedited version) written for Vidya Ashram 's Hindi monthly Lokavidya Panchayat. महंगाई समाज में गैर-बराबरी बढ़ाती है पि...

Vidya Ashram , Sarnath, Varanasi, India has recently started publishing a Hindi monthly with the aim of offering analysis, commentary and ...

A review I wrote of the recent film Raavan came out in the Economic and Political Weekly last week. It can be found here: Mani Ra...

Video of a talk I gave on the ideas and work of Vidya Ashram , a collective that I am part of here in Varanasi and where I am based this yea...