Skip to main content

India

Shopkeeper or Identity-keeper

Piyush Goyal, the Minister of Commerce & Industry, in the centralization oriented government, used an online social media content, in an event titled as Startup Mahakumbh, to provoke the Indian entrepreneurship startup stakeholders for not doing what the Chinese startups were doing with the words, “do you want to remain local shopkeepers (dukhandaar) or do you want to build international scale bharat ki pehchaan (make a name or identity keeper for bharat) startups choice before us!”. 

Revisiting Dharampal

This article was published in the Centenary Publication of collected articles on Dharampal and his works by PPST and Other India Books, Goa called Re-Imagining Swaraj through Indian Tradition. Having worked with Dharampal the Gandhian Historian between 2000 and his demise in 2006, Rama and Ramasubramanian, the founders of Samanvaya jointly have written this article based on one of the 20 archival compilations that they assisted Dharampal with. The book maybe purchased from the online book shop of OIB publications.

Journal for Rural Development - Gandhi 150th Birth Year Celebrations: Special Editorial

In 2019, the Journal of Rural Development brought out by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India brought out a special edition to celebrate the 150th Birth Year of Mahatma Gandhi. It requested Ramasubramanian to be the Special Thematic Editor for the Journal that contained 10 articles from eminent authors from different parts of world. This was released on the 2nd October 2019 by NIRD. The following is the Foreword written exclusively for that Journal.