Two decades ago, it was sad to know that the couple is divorced a decade after being married. But now it is an momentary amusement…
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Author: ASHOK KAUL
Our prime institutions were singular
Modern times are fragmenting times. Despite our claim of getting closer to holistic education, we feel the loss of what we are rejecting, ignoring or…
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Living forty nine years in Banaras Hindu University and leaving Banaras at the age of seventy, I have shadowed reflections of a wanderer. My friend…
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Although the international changes are so quick and unprecedented, it is not difficult to point out the reasons of our predicament. But it is not…
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I had my schooling at three places, until class 10th. N.M. Higher Secondary school Bandipur, then a year at Ranbir Higher Secondary School Jammu, and…
View More Revisiting Pluralism: Complimenting not contradicting traditionsI said Adab, she said Namaskar
I said Adab, she said Namaskar. In my Adab was vulnerability and in her Namaskar was insecurity. Nature was smiling and birds were chirping. Blue…
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Contemporary understanding of Power
The power question has come to the intellectual debates, since Weber defined authority, as ‘power viewed as legitimate’. That was the shaping up of modernity,…
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Evolving Relevance of Sociology
Sociology emerged as a champion discipline out of ‘The Great Transition Thesis’ of holism and contrast. Though bestowed from philosophy, it soon assumed its distinct…
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Dividends of peace: Some silver linings
Imagine a laborer, working during the da, studying in the hours of night and mornings, has cracked highly competitive NEET examination to the joy of…
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Exit or Incarnation
Who could have imagined that the most loved politician in Pakistan would be left in isolation, humiliated on daily basis, ditched by his people and…
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