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...
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...
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...
“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...
“In these times” Bhargav Rani “There has never been an epoch that did not feel itself to be “modern” in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...