What is needed for democracy to deliver

The centrality of the idea of capacity building of elected representatives cannot be undermined as if democracy is failing the people, elected politicians are failing democracy. For decades, democracy as a global institution has been struggling to cope up with an acute crisis of delivery. As several research reports have suggested, democracy’democracy. The key to…

Against ‘award wapsi’: What Marathi Dalit writer Sharankumar Limbale’s acceptance of a prestigious literary prize says

Marathi litterateur Sharankumar Limbale recently made headlines in Maharashtra, when he became the first Dalit writer to win the prestigious Saraswati Samman for his 2018 novel, Sanatan. Limbale, formerly an academic with Nashik’s Yashwantrao Chavan Open University, is also the author of over 40 books, some of which have been translated into different Indian and…