(Organised by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy on 23 April, 2025) Speakers : i) Dr Shamika Ravi , a member of the Economic Advisory...

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Book:  The Commissioner for Lost Causes Author:  Dr Arun Shourie Publisher:  Penguin Random House, India ISBN: 9780-6700-96404 Year of Publication:  2022 Pages:  586 Price:  INR 999 See better, Lear; and let me still remain, The true blank of thine eye. (Shakespeare, 1970, p.13) With an old Ramnath Goenka gradually losing his authority ¹ , and Arun Shourie helplessly watching the drunken dance of a falling empire, Th

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract The state’s dominance as a political form obscures alternatives that reject centralised authority. Addressing that assumption, this paper examines stateless societies as distinct modes of governance which resist the rationality of modern states. Contrary to Eurocentric assumptions that render them primitive or transitory, these societies cultivate egalitarian, non-coercive structures that decentralise power

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract Political thought seeps into the governance of the city through the institutionalised focus on neoliberalism. The Kolkata Environmental Improvement Investment Program (KEIIP) exemplifies sustainability-focussed, neoliberal urban governance, addressing water supply, sewerage, drainage, and waste management in a post-colonial city. This essay critically examines KEIIP's policy context and outcomes. Despite ach

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract This paper examines the evolution of democracy in India through the lens of alternative modernities, arguing that modernisation is not a uniform, linear process but is shaped by cultural and historical contexts. It situates the existence of multiple acceptable forms of democratic structures by contextualising India's democratic structure within a broader comparative framework, analysing how its electoral pro

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract The 2024 Bangladesh crisis has marked a reconfiguration of the idea of Bangladesh, breaking away from decades of partisan and ideological conflict between two contesting national identities, Bengali nationalism and Bangladeshi nationalism. The essay utilises qualitative analysis using secondary data to track the historic makings and trajectory of Bangladesh’s national identity and the underlying tensions tha

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract Challenging the Neo-Marxist and Situationist construction of the ‘everyday’, where consumer is a one-dimensional persona – a passive recipient (consumer) of ‘high culture’ produced by the power elites – Michel de Certeau, through his theory of ‘tactics’ and ‘strategies’, flips the production-consumption rhetoric to interpret consumption as a creative act of production. Through ‘tactics’ of subversion, the ho

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract In a world increasingly shaped by globalisation, the ideological struggles between sovereignty and global governance, individual freedoms and collective security, are being debated across both the real and fictional worlds. Captain America: Civil War, in this sense, presents a compelling narrative that explores these tensions. The ideological divide between its protagonists transcends superhero fiction, depi

Interviewed by Prem Ansh Sinha (Editor-in-Chief) Edited by Alankrita Singh (Associate Editor) As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Prof Quentin Skinner, Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, and former Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, is a founding figure of the Cambridge School of political thought. He is the author of various critically acclaimed books like Liberty as Independence  (2025), The Foundations of Mod

As published in the Volume 2(2)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract In ‘King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership,’ author Arnold Ludwig used statistics to assert that leadership among humans was a gendered phenomenon. Even in contemporary politics, women’s leadership is restricted and conditioned by gendered power relations. As the conservative nation of Pakistan elected its new parliament, asymmetrical dynamics of power between genders within democracies wer

( Organised by the India International Centre on 21st April, 2025 ) Speaker: His Excellency Mr Kamel Zayed Kamel Galal, Ambassador of...

Why is the trope of the evil woman so powerful that it’s still with us today? Why do we so often still give appalling men a pass with...

( Organised by the Centre for Policy Research on 20th January, 2025) Speaker: Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad, former Indian ambassador and...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract This essay aims to study the patterns and evolution of political...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract ‘When does loyalty to the state give way to the demands of...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract Crime and human deviance are important concepts to understand when...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract This essay explores the evolution of the welfare state and examines...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract This essay examines the shifting media narratives in Brazil,...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Political Review Abstract In the Arthasastra, there is no divine theory of kingship. Since the...

As published in the Volume 2(1)  of Ramjas Poltical Review Abstract This paper looks at the function of organised labour in India within...