January 2026
19th Dec 2025: Sustainability & Livelihoods - Academic conferences continued to be disappointing through the year as alternative imaginations and gatherings with genuine questions and non-pretentious resolutions made more realistic sense. The last one I attended was organized with the help of the Fair Trade network in MSSW which continued the streak of academic indifferent conferences. Billed as a national conference, I was invited to talk on sustainable rural livelihoods alongside a young entrepreneur from Andhra Pradesh. The chairperson for the session who had met me for the first…
Recent times we have been asked to provide a Gandhian perspective on several contemporary issues. Gandhians and Gandhian institutions in India largely are absent in the public domain. Gandhi's political, social and economic ideas being referred in public spaces is referred only in an obscure or tangential manner by the dominant left and right.
So, here is an offering. Make this February a reflective one using the prism of Gandhi to reflect on the contemporary issues. Job insecurity, climate anxiety, lifestyle induced diseases,…