Kottayam: The social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme needs to be implemented with the assistance of an independent jury system to enhance its effectiveness, as emphasized by Dr. TM Thomas Isaac, former Finance Minister. He was...
Philosophy is an unceasing pursuit for truth through dialogue. It entails the dauntless exercise of reason—amid myriad challenges, pressures, and persuasions, especially from traditions, ideologies, or religious systems. Philosophy is also one of many ways of setting out social...
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“India has been facing a tough challenge in creating decent jobs for its growing young population in the country and the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has further aggravated the job challenge in India,” according to...
“Secularism in India faces manifold challenges that require multilevel interventions to make it socially relevant and sustainable,” according to Irfan Engineer, noted Human Rights activist and Director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai. Engineer was speaking...
“Theyyam as a folk genre and performance is a creative and ritual invocation of the people who had been killed and silenced by the hegemonic structures of social power,” according to Dr. Rajesh Komath, a faculty in Social...
A primer for how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century
Amidst waves of economic crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A...
“Kerala is a state with remarkable feats in decentralisation and grassroot level development, but most of its achievements go unnoticed because of the laxity in proper documentation and the lack of continuity in successful development projects due to change...
“Documentaries are art forms of political memory making and a nation devoid of documentaries is like a family without any photo albums,” says Priya Thuvassery, a Delhi-based independent documentary maker and producer of widely discussed films like ‘Coral Woman.’...
In the context of continuing violence in social spaces, there is a need to explore and expand the existing methodology of social sciences, particularly of sociology and social anthropology, in order to address the silences and gaps that constitute...
