"The complete lack of any clarity about this timeline of redevelopment has left us dismayed about how to plan for research in the coming years and guide our students accordingly."
Assembly elections results in the two neighbouring states offer plenty of takeaways on potentials and limits of polarisation as a potent campaign tool.
SANTINIKETAN: A notice on a lecture uploaded on the Visva-Bharati website on Tuesday went missing on Wednesday afternoon, hours after it was placed in the public domain.
The topic was “Why BJP failed to win West Bengal assembly elections”. VB, a central university, had invited Sanjay Kumar, co-director of Lokniti, a research programme at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), to deliver the lecture on May 18. Vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty was scheduled to preside over the lecture. Accordingly, the joining link for the Zoom meeting was also in the public domain. This was the first time VB had arranged a lecture on an overtly political topic.
Lessons learnt The results of the West Bengal assembly elections deserve a close analysis Swapan Dasgupta | | Published 13.05.21, 12:08 AM
The outcome of the West Bengal assembly election led to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee beating off a sustained challenge from the Bharatiya Janata Party and securing a third term. The verdict in favour of the All India Trinamul Congress was conclusive, both in terms of seats and popular votes. At the same time, the scale of Mamata Banerjee’s victory took many by surprise. Although the dip in the turnout in the final three phases of the polls was widely expected to benefit the AITC, anecdotal wisdom believed the contest would be extremely close, with the winner securing between 150 and 160 seats in the 294-member assembly.
Dhirubhai Sheth and the Political Incorrectness of Being
Rajni Kothari and Dhirubhai Sheth s founding of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in 1964 had great consequences for the future of Indian democracy and academia.
DL Sheth and his wife, Surabhi Sheth. Photo: Special Arrangement
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Over one hundred years ago, two Gujaratis met in London â Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Two more contrasting personalities could not be imagined and the fallout for the Indian subcontinent was contained in that epic encounter.
Some 50 years later, another set of Gujaratis would meet with consequences that were creative for Indian democracy and the Indian academy. Â Political scientist Rajni Kothari and sociologist Dhiru Lal Sheth came together with a few other intellectuals, to author a novel experiment that would be called âThe Centreâ (The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, CSDS) in 1964. Ashis Nandy and Giri Deshingk