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Sanjay Srivastava

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It is through the hotch-potch of everyday life that produces the actual identities of Indian voting public that we should try to understand the story of elections

A few days ago, I came across a school photo posted by a friend on social media. It’s from the mid-1980s. An immaculately dressed group of teachers...

20.03.2024 20

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

Fast-food education produces both under-socialised young people and dysfunctional adults

There is an episode in Kashinath Singh ’s fictionalised Hindi language memoir, Kashi Ka Assi (2004), that goes something like this. It is 1953 and...

27.02.2024 30

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

The temple in Ayodhya showcases the move towards spirituality as a matter of spectacular display

If we consider the completely this-world contexts of the temple inauguration in Ayodhya – cameras, social media, helicopters, etc. – we might...

26.01.2024 10

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

Migrant workers largely exist in the national consciousness as dispensable life

We build statues, name stadiums and write hagiographies to honour Bollywood stars, cricketers, politicians and a pantheon of celebrities. But for the...

25.11.2023 10

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

People recognise that state jobs offer a higher standard of 'respectability' and security than private sector ones

For almost two years, one side of the Delhi-Jaipur highway in Gurugram has been the site of an agitation for the creation of an “Ahir regiment”....

02.11.2023 10

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

The Israeli path to national identity-formation shows us that that's a highway to recurring tragedy

The recurring tragedy that is the Palestine-Israel relationship should have something to tell us about the dangers of interpreting human histories...

13.10.2023 10

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

For Sankrityayan, not-being-at-home is a philosophy of dwelling in the world

Beyond its religious dimension, the past decade has witnessed the intensification of a very particular kind of nationalism. This has moulded public...

12.09.2023 10

Indian Express

Sanjay Srivastava

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