The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MG-NREGA) has faced budget cuts in this year's union budget in spite of unmet demand for work under the programme. Technologists, NREGA workers, economists and activists on the... more
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MG-NREGA) has faced budget cuts in this year's union budget in spite of unmet demand for work under the programme. Technologists, NREGA workers, economists and activists on the... more
ABSTRACT: This lecture revisits the history of Sanskrit in modern times, as this ancient language finds new life and meaning in a world shaped by nationalism, science, and struggles over identity.
SPEAKER: ANANYA VAJPEYI is a Fellow and... more
The Indian and the global economies have now reached a tipping point. Restoring the incomes and livelihoods lost during the Covid-19 pandemic is a priority for governments everywhere, and particularly so in India, which has an overwhelmingly... more
This talk is drawn from an ethnography of the spaces where queer, autonomous feminist and radical politics are mutually imbricated, adjacent, or, indeed, coterminous India. Anchoring my thinking in the 'near histories' of South Asian... more