“Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler/... If you think old England’s done...” — the lyrics of a popular war-time ditty encapsulate the tensions around European identity a...

It should not take a public intervention from the Chief Justice of India for the country’s news media to seriously reflect on their current state. Speaking at a book release last week, N.V. Rama...

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut on Saturday said that she does not belong to any party but will campaign for nationalists. She was speaking to reporters after visiting the Shri Krishna Janamsthan he...

Answers that the Central Board of Secondary Education has prescribed for two questions in the sociology paper of its ongoing first-term Class XII board exams are at odds with the content of the board&...

The essays in the present volume are compiled in two sections — “Nationalism in History” and “The Perils of Nationalism”. In the first section, there are multiple excerpt...

The opening lines of a popular song by Tears for Fears go like this: “Shout! Shout! Let it all out!/ These are the things I can do without!” This raucous, elemental voicing of protest in &...

The Central University of Kerala has threatened teachers and employees with disciplinary action for any “anti-national” lectures or statements. “The faculty members/employees should...

The debate on the line separating nationalism and patriotism is an old one. But it endures. No less than Rabindranath Tagore had scoffed at the scourge of narrow nationalism, calling it “carnivo...

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