Hopes for a New Republic of old stories
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Hopes for a New Republic of old stories

New Indian Express  

At a special cabinet meeting this January, the defence minister proclaimed that India had merely obtained the body of freedom in 1947, and the body politic received its soul only in 2024. The plural, informal, syncretic, playful sense of civilisation has given way to the puritanical nation-state as a monolithic entity. The nation-state has grown many layers to not only be a developmental state but a national security state. Governance was elaborated like a catechism and a set of diktats summarised the administrative wisdom of the state.

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