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...

T.K.Venkatasubramanian
T.K.Venkatasubramanian teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi.

Harkishan Singh Surjeet
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Aruna Chakravarti
Aruna Chakravarti, formerly the Principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, is a well-known writer and translator. She has received several prestigious literary awards including

M.K. Bhadrakumar
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Bernard D'Mello
Bernard D'Mello is a senior journalist with the Economic & Political Weekly and a civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.
P.M. Joshy
P.M. Joshy is Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate Department and Research Centre of Political Science, Sree Narayana College, Kollam, affiliated to the University of Kerala.

Satyendra More
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