Monthly Archives: September 2020

Jean Drèze’s Preface to ‘Rumble in a Village’

At first sight, Palanpur is as dull a place as its name suggests. I’m not talking of the hill station called Palampur in Himachal Pradesh, or of the headquarters of…

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The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India

The Colonial Indian Self-image An ancient civilization with amazing wealth of philosophical, literary and scientific treatises and unparalleled continuity of ‘the life of the mind’, India nonetheless was not at…

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