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The Political Economy of India’s New Middle Class

Vol. 57, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun, 2022
Ashutosh Kumar

Beyond Consumption: India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times edited by Manish K Jha and Pushpendra, London: Routledge, 2022; pp xviii + 205, `995.

From 50 Years Ago: Background to Big Power Involvement in Africa

Vol. 57, Issue No. 24, 11 Jun, 2022

Vol VII, No 24 JUNE 10, 1972

Gully Boy and Its Silent Mutinies

Vol. 54, Issue No. 8, 23 Feb, 2019
The film Gully Boy is a subtle introduction to the sociology of everyday life in cities of the global South. It rallies home the point that one of the easiest ways to work through the contentious spaces of urban social life in the neo-liberal Indian city is jugaad (the ability to juggle/ creatively tinker with the rules of the game).

Women from Outside

Vol. 53, Issue No. 19, 12 May, 2018
Sujatha Subramanian

Selfing the City: Single Women Migrants and Their Lives in Kolkata by Ipshita Chanda, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2017; pp xi + 323, ₹995.

The Idea of Happiness

Vol. 47, Issue No. 02, 14 Jan, 2012
Ashis Nandy

The idea of happiness has changed. It has emerged as a measurable, autonomous, manageable, psychological variable in the global middle-class culture. The self-conscious, determined search for happiness has gradually transformed the idea of happiness from a mental state to an objectified quality of life that can be attained the way an athlete after training under specialists and going through a strict regimen of exercises and diet wins a medal in a track meet. Might it be that the sense of well-being of a mentally healthy person shows its robustness by being able to live with some amount of unhappiness and what is commonly seen as ill-health?

Calcutta Diary

Vol. 37, Issue No. 09, 02 Mar, 2002
AM

The Calcutta Book Fair is now a formidable institution and has completed a quarter of a century's existence. It draws participants from across the country and sometimes from overseas as well. Even so it is an overwhelmingly Bengali affair.

A City and Its People

Vol. 36, Issue No. 48, 01 Dec, 2001
Sudha Pai

Fractured Modernity Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India by Sanjay Joshi; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001; pp 209, Rs 493.

Calcutta Diary

Vol. 36, Issue No. 31, 04 Aug, 2001
AM

The UTI fiasco has let down the middle class. It is a politically sensitive issue and the government is bound to launch into a number of firefighting operations. But once befuddled, twice shy. There is a danger of a revolt by the middle class.

Politics of Development in Postcolonial India

Vol. 36, Issue No. 30, 28 Jul, 2001
David Faust, Richa Nagar

While education in English has been advocated as a unifying and modernising force, it is also seen as a marker of imperialism and class privilege and a terrain of struggle among elite groups. Ruptures in such a class-divided educational system in turn shape specific debates over development, democracy and social change. Uneven empowerment that an education in English generates also has its fallout in an increasing polarisation, fracturing and violence against caste, gender and religious lines.

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