Category :(Publications)

‘Status of Policing in India Report 2020-2021-Policing in Conflict-Affected Regions’ was released online on April 19, 2021. It was followed by a panel discussion on ‘Can Extrajudicial Killings be the State Policy?’. Justice Madan B Lokur delivered the Keynote Address on ‘Is the Rule of Law Backsliding in India? Our Challenges in the 2020s’. 

Category :(Audio)

In this episode of ‘Speaking Otherwise: CSDS Podcast Series’, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Rajeev Bhargava on the place of religion in contemporary public life.  The discussion revolves around practices of secularism in India, the relationship between religion and caste, ancient and medieval histories of religious conflict and co-existence in the subcontinent and the concept of post-secularism as a possible optic to understand our times.

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In this episode of ‘Speaking Otherwise: CSDS Podcast Series’, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Udaya Kumar on the place of passion, emotion and affect in contemporary public life.  The conversation meanders around questions of self, body, sensory, sensation, intensity, stigma, experience, ghosts, viruses and conditions of political existence today. 

Category :(Discussion)

‘Remembering Dhirubhai Sheth’: A memorial meeting was held on 21 May 2021 via Zoom. The video is available on Facebook. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. The speakers included Abhay Kumar Dubey, Ashis Nandy, Bhikhu Parekh, Deepak Nayyar

Category :(Announcements)

Professor Dhirubhai Sheth, Honorary Fellow and former Director of CSDS passed away on 7 May 2021. He was 85 and had been ailing for some time. Dhirubhai was among the founder members of CSDS, joining the Centre in November