JNU Stories: The First 50 years is an anthology of anecdotal essays and a few poetical pieces. These essays, suffused and soaked with nostalgia, map the institutional and intellectual journey and are haunted by an ‘anxiety about preserving an institutional memory’ (p. 44). This passionate…
Reading the history of one’s old school is always interesting, sometimes even challenging. Rakesh Batabyal’s book on Modern School is certainly both. Situating the founding of the school in the context of the Indian Independence movement’s initiatives to build free…
Some books are read for who has written it; some are for the contents, and some for style. One should read Dr S Jaishankar’s book titled The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World for all the above three. A former Foreign Secretary of India and now its…
The statement that ‘India’s destiny is to be the Jagat Guru or Vishwa Bandhu’ is a consensual common sense that evolved through India’s freedom movement. One of the raison d’être for India’s Independence, as argued by many national leaders, was its potential to lead the world…
Post-Conflict Reconstruction: From Extremism to Peaceful Co-Existence puts under the lens the principal causes of state fragility which creates an enabling environment for violent religious extremism. The author takes up six case studies of different countries covering the Asian and African…
