The people of Goa are on the streets resisting authoritarian development forced on them. In a democracy development has to be pursued by consent but what we see in Goa is a forced development that is being pushed against the will of the people. Often what is projected as development is framed into a discourse of nationalism and resistance...
The Politics Behind the Uniform Civil Code
Several Issues that are facing us today have brought the analytic potential of the concepts of hegemony and subaltern to the centre of discussion. Within this conceptual framework, it has become possible for us to understand how hegemony has put on a new avatar of retroactively creating interests it claims to represent. This will open us to a new...
Facing Our Political Present
The Politics in Goa is haunted by spectres, ghosts and phantoms of its own past. With the disturbing defection in Goa the politics of the musical chairs has come back to haunt us again. Past as well as the future is always liminaly present in our lives but its haunting intrusion into our present can disrupt it beyond much...
