Diluting the Right To Information in India?| Sunday Reading List
The Central Government introduced the RTI Amendment Bill 2018 on July 19, 2018. The bill, inter alia, primarily, attempts to fix specific...
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- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
Ingmar Bergman at 100 | Sunday Reading List
Ingmar Bergman turns 100 years old today! To celebrate the centenary of the magician, here are a few articles and recommended essential...
- Jun 18, 2018
- 1 min
The Rage of the Incels | Jia Tolentino
This week’s Sunday Reading comes from Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker piece, ‘The Rage of the Incels’, in which she argues that being an...
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
The Clarity of a Suicide Note | Manash Bhattacharjee
For Sunday Reading: The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a...
- Mar 28, 2018
- 1 min
Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Andy Beckett
Nick Srnicek and the accelerationists saw the Cambridge Analytica scandal coming a long time ago. Last year in August, in The Guardian,...
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
Whose University Is It Anyway | Ron Srigley
This week’s addition to Sunday Reading List comes from Ron Srigley. Srigley writes a timely essay, critiquing the functioning of...
- Feb 19, 2018
- 2 min
The Feminist Pursuit of Good Sex | Nona Willis-Aronowitz
This week’s quick Sunday Reading on the list is a potent Op-Ed piece from Nona Willis-Aronowitz. Writing in the pages of the New York...
- Jan 29, 2018
- 2 min
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House | Audre Lorde
“As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as...
- Jan 21, 2018
- 2 min
Xenos: Jacques Derrida on Hospitality| Peter Benson
Jacques Derrida knew a thing or two about being an outsider. He was born of Jewish parents in 1930 in Algeria, at that time a French...
- Jan 1, 2018
- 1 min
I Hate New Year’s Day | Antonio Gramsci
This week’s timely Sunday Reading list addition comes from the Italian Marxist, Philosopher and Politician Antonio Gramsci. Titled ‘I...
- Dec 24, 2017
- 2 min
Intellectual Vocation & Political Struggle in the Trump Moment | Cornel West
This week’s addition to the reading list comes in the words of Dr. Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard...
- Dec 18, 2017
- 2 min
What Is Education | An Anthology
This week’s addition to the Sunday Reading list is an anthology titled ‘What is Education?’. Written by a group of students from Denmark...
- Dec 11, 2017
- 2 min
Toxic Lozenges | Jenny Diski
Any curious kid growing up must have read Agatha Christie at least a dozen times before concluding that murder is really very exciting....
- Dec 3, 2017
- 2 min
Politics As Vocation | Max Weber
A potpourri of Political Science and Sociology, this week’s addition to the Sunday Reading List is Max Weber’s essay ‘Politics As...
- Oct 8, 2017
- 1 min
How To Hide It: Inside The Secret World of Wealth Managers | Brooke Harrington
A year ago, the Brothers Obermayer/ier, journalists for Suddeutsche Zeitung exposed the Panama Papers which comprised of 11.5 million...
- Sep 17, 2017
- 1 min
Learning to Listen | Michael Walzer
The Sunday Reading List for this week comes from the Editor Emeritus of Dissent Magazine, Michael Walzer. His recent article ‘Learning to...
- Sep 9, 2017
- 1 min
Pedagogy of Debt | Jeffrey Williams
This week’s addition to the Sunday Reading list comes from the desk of Jeffrey J. Williams who is a Professor of English at Carnegie...
- Jul 16, 2017
- 1 min
Walking | Henry David Thoreau
This week’s addition to the Sunday Reading list comes from pioneering Transcendentalist and proponent of Civil Disobedience Henry David...
- Jul 9, 2017
- 2 min
Why I Make Movies | Ingmar Bergman
Our Sunday Reading List comes from the ‘gloomy Swede’, Ingmar Bergman, director of the Seventh Seal (1957), Persona (1966), Wild...
- Jul 2, 2017
- 1 min
Reflections on Gandhi|George Orwell
This week’s addition to the Sunday reading list comes from journalist and world renowned novelist George Orwell in the shape of his...
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