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Frontiers Past and Present

Timir Basu, editor of Frontier Weekly, reflects on the present, past and future of the Weekly.

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featured articles

The Populist Perversion

Bishakha Nandy examines the inequal governance festering under the rule of populism in Bengal.

The 'Dim Lights'
of Populist Politics

Kalyan Kumar Das contemplates the potential of populist governance in West Bengal.

The Pitfalls of Populism

Bishakha Nandy examines the inequal governance festering under the rule of populism in Bengal.

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The Animated Debate on Populism in Bengal: A Comment

Maidul Islam furthers the debate on the merits and demerits of populist governance in West Bengal.

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​Left and Right: 
the Evolution of Political Ideologies

Pranab Bardhan

Pranab Bardhan discusses the cultural and economic tensions shaping the divisions of the political Left and Right in the post-globalised world.

on cultural and economic boundaries of political ideologies

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Ashish Nandy reflects on the fading ethos of middle-class culture and the growing dangers of its moral decline.

Ashis Nandy in conversation with Kaveree Bamzai

"The Middle Class has Failed Us..."

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It is just that there be Law, but Law is not Justice

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on justice

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak writes about the idea of justice as cultural practice and the consequent need to 'educate educators'.

Readings

The most palpable crises worldwide today are centered around water: whether it be unequal access to potable water, acute droughts or floods, the displacement of thousands due to damming, or the dangerous rise of sea levels in coastal regions. Seated in the boiling pot of these crises—the Global South—Corey Ross asks: can we trace a genealogy of our present problems to the “historic quest to conquer aquatic nature” (3)?

Corey Ross
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World

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Review by Sohini Sengupta

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