ThoughtPapers

Who Is My Role Model?

Dearth of role models for Indian youth and the influence of social media.

Author : Dr.Padmavathi Koride, Assistant Professor, CHRIST Bangalore

Keywords : Role model, Indian youth, freedom, social media, celebrities

The Ukraine-Russia War - So What’s New About It?

How innocent people suffer on account of wars and how we can avert this tragedy.

Author : Dr. Padmavathi Koride, Assistant Professor, CHRIST Bangalore

Keywords : Ukraine-Russia war, Space exploration, Human tragedy, Spirituality

Rudra Thandavam: Daring into No-Go Areas

A review of Director G Mohan's latest Tamil release.

Author : G Ramesh, Professor (Retd.), IIM Bangalore

Keywords : Rudra Thandavam, Movie, G Mohan, PCR Act, Ambedkar,

The Advertisement Culture

How advertisements have influenced our way of living and thinking

Author : Dr. P K Joshi, faculty, HBCSE-TIFR

Keywords : Movies, Habits, Materialism, Soap Operas, Middle-class homes

COVID-19: Origin of the second wave

An evaluation of factors that led to the onset of second wave

Author : Abhishek Gorsi, Researcher in Economics and Public Policy

Keywords : Political ideology, Kumbh Mela, Elections, Blame game, Active Covid Cases

Next Wave May Target Intellectuals

Covid-19 has ignited the imagination of experts from various disciplines

Author : Prof. G Ramesh, Center for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore

Keywords : Media, Experts, Intellectuals, Third Wave, Ayush, Vaccination

Marxist Perspective on children's cartoon 'Tom and Jerry'

Tom and Jerry is one of the best children cartoons and a political satire too

Author : K Sunanda Sriram, Alumnus, SASTRA University

Keywords : Marxism, Equality, Oppression, Satire, Successful

Cost of democracy or the cost of upsetting vested interests?

The delays and negotiations can be considered as 'transaction cost of democracy'

Author : G Ramesh, Professor, Center for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore

Keywords : Farm Bills, Cost of Democracy, Cost of Protests

The great humanities research circus

The death of the universal and the development of an academic culture that is anti-science and anti-empirical ...

Author : Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Associate Professor, Dept. of HSS, IIT-Madras

Keywords : Humanitites, Social Sciences, Maoist Revolution, Gender

The Battle over the Book: The Bloomsbury Controversy

The anxiety of status-quoists mark a defining moment for non-left cultural warriors

Author : Jyotirmaya Tripathy is a Chennai based academic and cultural critic

Keywords : books, delhi riots, michael ventura, william dalrymple, bloomsbury

The New York Times’ prejudiced gaze at India, Hindus, Hinduism

Western media bias: a sample of content analysis of reporting by The New York Times

Author : Ramesh Rao, Prof of Communication, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA

Keywords : media, newspaper, bjp, western media, hindus, hinduism, marxist, cow vigilantism