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Bajaj and Birlas’ philanthropy was modelled, in many ways, along the severely restricted Gandhian agenda of self- reform. Mainly directed at uppercaste communities such as their own, these ‘welfare’ programmes—Ambedkar noted in his seminal Annihilation of Caste—had less to do with the reform of Hindu society but more at reforming the savrana Hindu family. ... Instead, it strived for Dalits’ assimilation within the fold of the wider Hindu society while demonstrating—performatively—upper- castes Hindus’ willingness to reform themselves
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
Arun Kumar
Examining the Politics of Climate Change in India
Key takeaways:
- A three-part categorization of the politics of different constituencies in India was proposed.
- The first category prioritizes economic growth over climate change concerns.
- The second category adopts a realist approach, focusing on protecting India's interests.
- The third category advocates for India's active participation in global efforts to address climate change.
- The categorization provides a political prescription to move the debate towards the progressive internationalists.
- It is important to understand the perspectives of all three categories and involve realists while isolating climate change skeptics.
- India needs to balance its development goals with climate change concerns.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
I wrote a paper where I'd try to examine the politics of different constituencies in India. And I came up with this framing where I said, look, you have a category that you might call the growth first stone wallers, right, who say climate change is an excuse to hold back the south. And we should just be focused on maintaining as much freedom for our choice of development. The second category you might call the progressive realists who say climate change is serious. We are worried about it, but the rest of the world is not particularly worried about it. And therefore we have to be realist about this and make sure that we protect India's interests. And the third group might be progressive internationalists, but they said climate change is serious. We should be part of the voices that in a somewhat idealistic way build a global consensus for action and India should be part of that solution, not necessarily getting out ahead of everybody Else, but at least being part of figuring out how to move the world community. And that sort of three part categorization took hold a lot of some other academics picked that up in their writing about it and so on and so forth. So it became a way to try and understand the politics and it gave a political prescription which is let's move, let's try and move the debate in the direction of the progressive internationalists. We need more of them, right? And we need to understand where the realists come from, bring some of them on board and we need to isolate the store walls. Because we think you have to both take, we do have to take development seriously, but you also have to take climate seriously. It's in India's interest. We're deeply vulnerable country. But we have to walk that line in a way where we don't take it seriously by short-changing ourselves. So it's a delicate balancing act.
CPR Perspectives Episode 1 — Rohan Venkat in Conversation With Navroz Dubash
India Speak: The CPR Podcast
For Sennett then, contemporary consumption is all about theatre: objects evolved to offer the consumer desires and capabilities that are capable of not just buttressing a sense of self, but of actually stretching the boundaries according to which the self operates. Work becomes a focal point for this way of thinking. It becomes a form of consumption itself. A form of self-consumption, in fact, in which work is less about meeting organisational goals and more about exceeding personal ones.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
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