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How Indian Environmentalism Shelters Eco-Casteism
Read more: How Indian Environmentalism Shelters Eco-CasteismThis article explores how mainstream Indian environmentalism nurtures caste biases through prominent ideologies and movements.
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Resilience of Community Health Workers During COVID-19 Response
Read more: Resilience of Community Health Workers During COVID-19 ResponseOn the resilience of CHWs during COVID response and the recent strategy of GOI to combat the 2nd wave of COVID-19 in rural areas.
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COP26: Assessing Climate Action
Read more: COP26: Assessing Climate ActionAsish Singh underlines the optimism and gaps in the climate politics around net zero targets and climate financing leading up to Glasgow and beyond.
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How Conservation Attempts to Erase the Memories of Exclusion: The Past
Read more: How Conservation Attempts to Erase the Memories of Exclusion: The PastIn the first of the two-part series, Ashika talks about how conservation has in many ways contributed to exclusion in the environment space.
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Gender & Platformisation of Work
Read more: Gender & Platformisation of WorkIn the second episode of this series on Gendered Identities in the Digital Space, we spoke to Ambika Tandon from The Centre for Internet and Society about the issue of platformisation of work and how it impacts gendered groups in our economy. Ambika Tandon is a Senior Policy Officer at CIS, where she studies the…
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Aesthetics in International Relations: Reportage, Colonialism, and Modernity
Read more: Aesthetics in International Relations: Reportage, Colonialism, and ModernityThis article aims to explore the idea of aesthetics in International Relations. It seeks to find an answer to explain the dominance of Western aesthetics in contemporary discourses through colonialism and highlights the all-pervasiveness of this aesthetic even in non-western contexts.
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The Changing Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
Read more: The Changing Geopolitics of the Indo-PacificThis article looks at the Indo-Pacific with a critical lens. It seeks to answer why the Indo-Pacific is a region of great importance in the arena of international affairs today, and examines the nature of recent military developments with a tangential focus on the changing role of the state actors in the economic and strategic…
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The Third World’s Modern Origins
Read more: The Third World’s Modern OriginsThe genesis of the ‘Third World’ categorization lies in the nature of modernity exported by the First World. Asish Singh explains this with the example of eighteenth-century famines in India.
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Middle class Environmentalism: Fact or Façade?
Read more: Middle class Environmentalism: Fact or Façade?Ashika questions where the middle class lies in the spectrum of environmentalism on the basis of wealth specific to India and explores the running discourse on the subject. Much like that of the rich and the poor, it is important to understand their attitude towards the environment and its resources.
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Kashmiri Feminism: History of Refusal, Rejection, and Resistance – 1
Read more: Kashmiri Feminism: History of Refusal, Rejection, and Resistance – 1By introducing the concept and complexities of Kashmiri Feminism, the first article of this series aims to highlight the basics of Kashmiri Feminism under the light of three themes – Resistance of Kashmiri Women against the Military Occupation, Failure of Indian Feminism in accommodating the identity of Kashmiri Women and the position of Kashmiri Women…
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I leave you with two words… Inclusion Rider
Read more: I leave you with two words… Inclusion RiderFrances McDormand’s acceptance speech at the 2018 Academy Awards left the world puzzled about her closing lines –“I have two words to leave you with ladies and gentlemen, Inclusion Rider.” On the further understanding of what an inclusion rider is, the discourse around how the film industry could be modelled into a fair and safe…
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Should Personal Income Tax be Abolished in India?
Read more: Should Personal Income Tax be Abolished in India?Income tax abolition is a highly debated and controversial proposal in the country today. About one fourth of the central government’s revenue comes from personal income tax collection. While some economists argue that the loss of revenue for the government would be detrimental, others opine that more money in the hands of people would result…
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