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August 2015

MAMATA MAKES MPs MUMMIES

Mummies all we are. Mummies all we’ve been converted into by our Oddhokko Mamata Banerjee. Seeing our pitiable parsimonious plight, even royal RabindraNath Tagore has become hunchback in utter shame but he has not made any dent in…

Culture as Capital

The title might seem to be an echo of Pierre Bourdieu’s famous conception of “Cultural Capital.” The use of culture as a power-resource is an extensively-used connotation. In its “embodied” state, cultural capital encompasses…

CEO-Style Politics

Much has been said about the parliamentary logjam and monsoon session washout. But few have taken note of its crucial subtext: How the Narendra Modi dispensation has handled its first direct political confrontation with a recharged…

ENVIS Centre on NGO and Parliament

The ENVIS Centre 07 at WWF-India was established on October 27, 1984 under the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Programme of the Ministry of Environment Forests & Climate Change,Government of India. The Centre was…