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Demographic Turn

A decade after India attained independence, Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, was deeply pessimistic about the future of Indian culture that he had studied and long admired.

Beyond Macaulay

Recently, there has been a public debate around the “Macaulay mindset”. English again has found a central place in India’s education discourse.

Workshop on relations with Tibet

At the beginning of the first session Prof Samir Sharma, head of the department of political science introduced Mr Tsundue and the student volunteers greeted him.

Our India ~ I

The great Greek scholar Megasthenes described how popular assemblies restrained the power of the kings. Kautilya's Arthasastra also mentions that several public authorities provided safeguards against abuse of power by the king. All these prove that we had enough experience of democratic governance and people's participation in the political process

For All Humanity

Our Republic is commemorating the 150th birth year of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, the 90th death anniversary of Bipin Chandra Pal, and the 103rd death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Long before 1905 the sharing of ideas and action plans between these three intellectual giants laid the foundations of our freedom struggle with clarity on the power of ‘Swaraj‘, boycott of foreign goods, nationalism, and Sanatana Dharma. Aurobindo Ghose, the youngest of this triumvirate, was clearly the most revolutionary and radical in his writings and activism