Avijit Pathak
Avijit Pathak
Avijit Pathak is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- The Chaotic Order
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Here is a book that flows like a river, and invites its readers to a rtythmic walk with a teacher who narrates his pedagogic travelogue, reflects on the vocation of teaching and the culture of high...
- On Social Constraints and the Great LongingINR 295
Universities divide, separate and fragment. Life, however, incorporates everything – poetry and politics, religiosity and economics, reason and intuition. Here is a book that is in tune with the ...
- Social Implications of SchoolingINR 350
Education has always been an arena of contestation. More so in our times, when we are witnessing the resurgence of the debate on the meaning of education – its social objectives, its politics and...
- Modernity, Globalization and IdentityINR 325
Enough has already been said and written about modernity, globalization and Identity. What, however, distinguishes the book is its reflexivity – the politico-ethical questions it raises, and way ...
- The Rhythm of Life and DeathINR 295
“Reality is not just what is explicitly visible, what statisticians measure, tabulate and quantify. That is merely surface reality. Beneath it lies the deeper reality which reveals itself whe...
- Ten Lectures on EducationINR 295
This book – written with theoretical rigour, sociological sensibility and poetic beauty – reveals the intensity of classroom lectures and dialogues. In the age of 'virtual intimacy', the author...
- CULTURE, POLITICS AND THE AESTHETICS OF LIVINGINR 550
With the fragmentation of knowledge and narrow specialization, we often miss the ecstasy of connectedness; the creeative eyes of a wanderer, or the eyes that see poli...
Somasundara Rao
Somasundara Rao, Professor (Retd.), obtained an M.A. (History and Archaeology), M.A. (Hons.) and Ph.D. from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and specialized in the ancient and medieval history of
Vishwanath Pandey
Dr. Vishwanath Pandey is a Ph.D. in Sociology and graduate of Law and Journalism. An author and columnist, he is well known in the corporate and business communication world. He has been the Office
Pinarayi Vijayan
Pinarayi Vijayan (born 1945) is the Chief Minister of Kerala. He served as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operation from 1996 to 1998. He joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964. H