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eSS Sunday Edit: The Entrepreneurial University and its Questions

In an entrepreneurial university where quantification, evaluation and interdisciplinarity are insisted upon, we need several issues sorted out before embracing the idea....

Category: Editorials

by Pramod K. Nayar

COP26 Draft Text

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, Emphasizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling climate change and the crucial role of international cooperation in implementing the Paris Agreement to the highest possible ambition...

Category: Current Affairs

by Anonymous

The Humanities of Crisis: Climate Change and the Discipline

From scientific upheavals in the Early Modern to world wars in the twentieth century, Humanities has responded to the crisis and also reinvented itself in terms of methodologies and fields of inquiry. If this assumption about the origins of...

Category: Essays

by Pramod K. Nayar

Tribute: Kamla Bhasin

Vibhuti Patel pays a heart-warming tribute to a fellow feminist....

Category: Current Affairs

by Vibhuti Patel

Know your Publishing Space: Preprints: Boon or Bane?

This essay addresses preprints, their advantages and disadvantages, the degree of public acceptance, and global promotional campaigns. It also focuses on dubious preprint servers as a source of scientific misinformation. It concludes with a cautio...

Category: Essays

by Shubhada Nagarkar

eSS Sunday Edit: Do the Liberal Arts Have Any Authority in the Digital Age?

It is likely that the ‘authority’ of the literary text requires a rethinking. The teacher has traditionally been invested with epistemic authority: the legitimate exercise of knowledge and expertise-as-power in the transmissi...

Category: Editorials

by Pramod K. Nayar

eSSay:The Managerial University and Liberal Arts’ Balancing Act

The managerialism that marks the HEIs has altered the Liberal Arts’ perception of itself and the face it presents to the world. Can the academic manager build opinions, policies and decisions about the Liberal Arts in the quantification-...

Category: Essays

by Pramod K. Nayar

eSS Sunday Edit: Sunrise Again for Indian Hockey?

India’s hockey performance, men’s and women’s, at Tokyo is remarkable in significant ways and may well be a portent of things to come. It's a fitting celebration of the life of Keshav Dutt, hockey veteran who died just before the Olympic play began....

Category: Editorials

by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya

Sonal Shukla 1941-2021: A Tribute

Feminist activist, cultural icon, intersectional women's activist...

Category: Current Affairs

by Vibhuti Patel

Technology, Globalisation and Multinationals The Asian Experience (Second Edition)

This second edition of the volume of Technology, Globalisation and Multinationals deals with issues relating to foreign direct investments (FDI); technology spillovers from FDI; in-house research and development (R&D...

Category: Essays

by N S Siddharthan
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