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Rethinking Democracy is an insightful and reflective monograph on democracy in general and Indian democracy in particular. In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core arguments he has laid down in his various writings in the past four decades—Politics in India, State Against Democracy, Communali... More

Rajni Kothari's Memoirs, which he calls the 'journey of my mind', is not an autobiography, yet it accommodates much more than that genre can offer. He tries to capture the idea of the nation as well as address a plethora of questions that have left his mind in a state of perennial unrest.... More

The wide range of stories and fictional excerpts show how Gujarati women inhabit their fictional worlds. The trajectory hints at an imperceptible shift from muffled voices to more candid ways of being, and yet it never loses completely the middle-class genteelness that characterizes literary discou... More

This timely volume contains a collection of speeches delivered by Dr Rangarajan at various fore. The author, on the basis of his vast experience -- both as an academician and as a central banker (during the crucial period 1992-97) -- presents a wide array of ideas, views and suggestions for taking I... More

Whither freedom? And whose freedom is it anyway? What gives the powerful, the right to flex their military muscle in defiance of duly established International Law? Is the democratic world now expected to pick up the pieces in Iraq? And is Iraq only the first in a long list of nations that will be b... More

It wasn't meant to be like this When bigots atop a medieval structure on a cold December morning a decade ago demolished the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, they were dismantling teh edifice on which modern India rests, By harking to an imperfect past-teh vandalism of rulers of all religions in an age whe... More