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Nearly 20 years ago, America’s largest chemical multinational company attempted to set up a factory to produce Nylon 6,6 (a synthetic fibre) at Kerim, Ponda. After one of the biggest demonstrations in popular history of Goa – which claimed the life of Nilesh Naik, one of the demonstrators – the company beat a total retreat. […]
I am putting up here the url of the rejoinder I wrote — and that EPW has just published — relating to responses that EPW published in connection with my earlier article on “Eurocentrism and the Social Sciences.” http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/16663.pdf Happy reading!
Multiversity and Citizens International have recently published this booklet which contains the full text of the above essay. Download.
There has been no fundamental change in the structure of teaching and research at universities all over the world since the first university in the West was set up at Bologna around the year 1155 (CE). Our universities today are all based on the Western pattern, since these institutions were installed during periods of political […]
Pulses – a general term we use for peas, beans and lentils – are the stuff of Indian food which is associated with a strong dimension of vegetarianism and healthy living. So ever wondered why many of them are named after animals and birds? We have for example, “horsegram,” “cowpea,” “pigeonpea,” “mothbean” and “chickpea,” among […]
Eating wise, I belong to two generations. I am part of that generation that had access to safe, tasty, diverse kinds of food, all of it grown without chemicals, and a good part of it coming directly from nature. I was privileged to be looked after by two benign grandmothers who were wizards in the […]
The present schooling system and its curriculum have not changed fundamentally over the past 200 years. The current system owes much to the thinking and prejudices of its originator, notably, T.B. Macaulay (an English Governor General) who prepared its foundation note in 1835. This inheritance from a colonial leadership was merged at some level with […]
This paper critically examines the existing theoretical framework within which the social sciences are taught and researched in various universities of the non-Western world. It proposes that not just the content but even the assumptions and methodologies guiding the accumulation of knowledge in social science studies disciplines have been uncritically imported from the European academic […]
Mrs Gandhi’s concerns about protecting the environment and ecology of India’s coasts which held sway for almost 20 years, now go for a toss under a regime supervised by her daughter-in-law and grandson. Claude Alvares – who has been involved with coastal ecology issues for decades – provides a stinging critique of the way in […]
Let me begin with a story about my favourite Sufi wit, Mullah Nasruddin. Apparently one day the Mullah lost his ring down in the basement of his house. He couldn’t find it because it was very dark in there. So he climbed out onto the street and started looking for it there instead. Somebody passing […]