Revolution and CUNY: Remembering the 1969 Fight for Open Admissions
Bhargav Rani The past month has seen a spate of retrospectives debating the legacy of the failed revolution of…
The Artist as “Terrorist”: Violence and Caste in the Persecution of Kabir Kala Manch
Bhargav Rani On the morning of 2 April 2013, two prominent members of the Pune-based cultural group Kabir…
The Rebel’s Time – Remembering Vidrohi’s Poetry of Revolution
Bhargav Rani “The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from…
“To Revolution, or not to Revolution”
Bhargav Rani “Has not the “world revolution” been reduced to an empty formula which can be appropriated pragmatically by the…
“In these times”
Bhargav Rani “There has never been an epoch that did not feel itself to be “modern” in the sense…
Demonetization in India: The Political Economy of Waiting Time
Bhargav Rani Everybody in this country remembers what they were doing on the evening of November 8. It is a…
The DSC votes to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
By Bhargav Rani. The Doctoral Students Council, at its plenary meeting on 15 April, passed a resolution calling for a boycott…
History at the altar of Nationalism: The Stakes of the Student Resistance in India
Bhargav Rani What characterized the revolutionary classes at their moment of action is the awareness that they are going…
Those Fools You Call Intellectuals: “Digital India” and a Defense of Dissidence
Bhargav Rani In the political climate of our times, “intellectual” is a dirty word. It is more often than not…
