Whether SCST sub-classification is good in law is debatable, but it is terribly bad for the future of solidarity based politics. The political potential of reservations is being killed by a thousand sub-classifications. For a change, I agree with Bella Trivedi.

Speaking at this conference today and looking forward to engaging with some of the best minds in Indian constitutional studies.

Amir Khan should make a sequel to Dangal on #vineshphogat. But of course he wouldn’t because she is politically contentious and there are no Olympic medals involved yet. Tells you everything about our relation as a nation to sports culture.

The rare joy of seeing Pakistan and India on top of the world in an Olympics event. Arshad Nadeem and Neeraj Chopra are the best posterboys of aman ki aasha in our times.

In Calcutta, the specific content of protest slogans changes from time to time, but their form remains the same. A previous generation shouted 'Amar naam, tomar naam, Vietnam, Vietnam'. Today it's 'Amar ghar, tomar ghar, RG Kar, RG Kar'.

Appalled by protestors assembling in front of my house and shouting for the death penalty in the #RGKar case. A laudable public campaign loses its ethical compass when crowds and masses start baying for blood and demand justice by hanging to satiate their collective conscience.

Super proud of this, Salmoli Choudhuri! Humboldt University is where all the philosophers and theorists, and even the odd scientist,whom we have loved and admired over the years went. You will have great intellectual company.

India at its best questioned the hypocrisy of European enlightenment, which was never extended fully to the colonial world. India at its worst is content just being a few notches better than the Taliban on the woman question. Thank God for small mercies!

I take death all too seriosly. Some of India's foremost thinkers based their political projects on death. So when Indian political thought is declared dead it is only amusing if wilful ignorance. Glad the next gen of scholars sets the record straight thewire.in/politics/contr…

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Contrary to Yogendra Yadav's Dim View, Indian Political Thought is Alive and Thriving m.thewire.in/article/politi…