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Activist Sudha Bharadwaj at her residence in Mumbai on Sunday.

Bhima Koregaon and the search for justice

The book delves into the lives of each of the 16 activists arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case; who they are and what motivated them to keep fighting.
Ajay Gudavarthy
April 1975: Morarji Desai, flanked by K. Kamaraj and Jayaprakash Narayan, breaks the indefinite fast he had embarked on over the issue of holding elections to the Gujarat Assembly, which had been dissolved. Gandhian modes of mobilisation were reflected in his ideas of passive resistance, but that also disallowed rebellious assertion.

India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics

With the ascent of a majoritarian government and concerns about dissent’s impact on policy, the social imaginary of protest politics is changing.
Ajay Gudavarthy
Members of the civil society group Bahutva Karnataka release report cards on the performance of the Karnataka government ahead of the Assembly election in Bengaluru on April 12.

Reclaiming constitutional democracy

The Great Indian Manthan is held together by a common concern about India’s democratic backsliding and a need to return to the constitutional vision.
Ajay Gudavarthy
A meeting of the Constituent Assembly in 1950.

A ringside view of democracy: Review of ‘House of the People’ by Ronojoy Sen

That is what this “biography” of India’s Parliament gives the reader for the most part.
Ajay Gudavarthy

Interrogating the nation state

A book that searches for answers to the problems with the making of India’s nationhood.
Ajay Gudavarthy
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