I think feminism is a way of broadening the application of universal human values of equality, liberty and justice. Although these values have been ideal for humans for millennia, their application was often limited by power structures. Only the dominant group members were eligible to claim things using these values…

Plea to the world's citizens for the people of Maldives. When we hear about natural disasters on the Internet or the news, we think of them as events around us. They do not affect our lives, and thus we do not give due importance to them. In case of significant…

Every economic system faces periodic rise and fall of economic activities(output), which we call business or trade cycles. This periodic fluctuation in economic activities can be graphically represented through a stylised business cycle. …

Machiavelli (1469–1527) Socio-Political Context and the times of Machiavelli Machiavelli reflects the spirit of realism and empiricism and looks to politics without a reference to ideals. He tried to look directly at the empirical reality of Human behaviour. …

On the one hand, activists(Vatal Nagaraj) have been quite critical of statues of Edward VII and Queen Victoria in the Cubbon Park. On the other hand, local natives and historians have been exhorting to cultivate tolerance and avoid destroying public spaces. The act of setting up monuments has been seen…

In the world of Cinema, in the dying days of Raj, the British sponsored a range of global propaganda films that attempted to justify their rule and their achievements in institution building and infrastructure such as post and railways. The perspective of filmmaking from the colonial standpoint continues even today…

This picture of the Tagore book on Nationalism, I think, is the strongest postcolonial reaction from the Orient. It gave the most robust critique to the idea of the Nation-States on which the European Civilization was built, and the entire project of colonialism was centred around the expansion of spheres…

This image of the Kolkata station highlights the Politics of Renaming Cities and Public Places across India. The Politics of Renaming has been a trend since the end of colonial rule. Various public monuments were renamed throughout history, and public statues of European kings and queens were relocated since Independence. …

Religion — A means of Colonisation Ramakrishna Math, Basavangudi The first picture highlights the reaction to the colonial project of creating “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and intellect.” In the backdrop of Missionary zeal to spread Christianity in…