June 2025
Conference and Seminars in Academic institutions often follow template of bygone era when knowledge was considered as prerogative of “scholars” and everyone else was expected to thankfully slurp their verbiage. The Learning Society UnConference (LSUC) 2025 at Kumaraguru College of Technology Coimbatore by Shikshantar Aandolan and the Multiversity Alliance India is one of the most enjoyable gatherings I have can in recent times. LSUC was different from academic Conferences as the name indicates. Diverse gathering of about 800 people, lots of kids and parents together, academics, activists,…
Sudarshan Chariar has been interning at Samanvaya this summer. He is pursuing Economics and Politics at the Ashoka University and is currently doing the internship as part of his summer break. He will write later on the experience and insights. The first part of his submission (below) is on reading of Hind Swaraj, the basic Gandhian work. As someone reading this for the first time and recording his impressions, this offers a fresh perspective on the work. When I first read M.K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, each new chapter felt like a slap in the face. There were arguments so polemic, so…
Branding need tweaking tools, unbranding need VALUES this is the first sutra of UnBranding. Stepping aside from STANDARDIZED global lifestyle is today an act of asserting freedom. This is the second sutra of UnBranding.To be Sustainable we need to be ready to be called an ENEMY of consumptive market. This is the third sutra of UnBranding. To take effort to KNOW the producer of what we consume is against the principles of consumer markets. This is the fourth sutra of the UnBranding. To Brands is to create a recognizable identity, to UnBrand is to create a…