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Rahul Gandhi listens to children during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Makthal in Telangana’s Narayanpet district on October 27, 2022.

Can listening transform Indian politics? Rahul Gandhi thinks so

Rahul’s approach, rooted in concepts of “heteronomy” and “self-annihilation”, challenges traditional power dynamics.

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Members of Citizens for Peace, Justice, and Democracy protest against rising mob violence and cow vigilantism in Chennai on July 1, 2017.

Cow vigilantes and the pathology of violence

How sacred symbols become tools of oppression, laying bare a mindset that justifies communal violence under the guise of protecting religious values.

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Mahatma Gandhi speaks with Jawaharlal Nehru in Bombay, in 1946. Both Gandhi and Nehru represented a tradition of “thinking-in-action” or “thinking-in-politics” that characterised Indian political thought during the anti-colonial movement.

Who needs political thinkers?

A prominent activist laments the disappearance of political philosophers in India, but are they truly missing or just unheard?

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A slogan spray-painted on a gate to mark the recent anti-government protest that ousted then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka University area, August 19, 2024.

Bangladesh’s ‘liberation’ is breeding a new intolerance

Secularists such as Abdul Bashir have become the new outcasts, and experts warn of democratic backsliding amid growing influence of religion.

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The Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz, Germany.

Karl Marx’s Jewish blind spot

How the thinker missed the dangers of nationalism.

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