Shiv Visvanathan

Apr 26, 2010
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Shiv Visvanathan

Meaning, magic of the Mahatma

There is something about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that is incredibly seductive. Decades after his death, I still visit Sabarmati Ashram every year on October 2. It is always disappointing.

Get the housewife’s recipe

Kashmir is all too often read as a fragment. It represents for most a law and order problem, a security issue. It raises problem of terror, violence, secession and misgovernance.

Confusion is good. It means debate, thought

The Congress as a political party is a fascinating entity.

A tale of two investigations

Justice is a strange process. A witness described it is as the longest pregnancy. One waits and waits, hoping for a life that never comes. During the wait, survivors and witnesses become experts on the real nature of the judicial. Every ritual, every legal term acquires a new life.

India’s crisis of ethics

I firmly believe one does not get old fashioned as one gets older. One gets more demanding of the new. One demands a sense of fundamentals without the facileness of fundamentalism.

Games people play

There is something about controversies in India that is disheartening. The problem lies in the fact that as rituals of public debate and disclosure they are never complete.

Rethinking education

The other day someone asked me what I thought were the three most important ministries. The standard answers expected were defence, home and finance. Some would hyphenate foreign and defence. I must admit these are important ministries, if law and order, security are the most important goals of the state. But in a futuristic sense,

Rethinking education

The other day someone asked me what I thought were the three most important ministries. The standard answers expected were defence, home and finance. Some would hyphenate foreign and defence.

Obituary of a manifesto

Moments of nostalgia are both moments of memory and invitations to rethinking.

Taking science seriously

One of the great stalemates in recent times was the moratorium on Bt brinjal. The India debate on genetically-modified (GM) food froze to a still life, with activists confused as to the next step.

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