Jyotirmaya Tripathy
Intellectuals’ Labor Lost, Misdirected: Time to Regain Relevance
Running a democracy like India that abounds in thousand fault-lines is quite a task, something even many older Western industrial democracies will admit. If the ... Read More
Culture War after Article 370: It is for the Left Liberals to Lose it
For millions of Indians, it is the political right which is disruptive, facilitator of change and progressive in terms of protecting lower class/lower caste interest ... Read More
A Temple for Romila Thapar?
Whether Thapar herself engineered this revolt or manipulated her bhakts in JNUTA to go ballistic the way they did is anybody’s guess. But prima facie ... Read More
Intellectualism as power and intellectuals as mercenaries
A professor teaching at a Chennai based journalism school, accused of sexually exploiting his own students young enough to be his grand-children, was actively supported ... Read More
Intellectuals are contemporary anomalies
In desperation to remain relevant so as to engineer a proletarian utopia, Indian intellectuals go beyond interpreting the world for the people; they prescribe the ... Read More