Keyword: India
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS, Bangalore) was launched in 2004. Amongst other initiatives, the two organisations have organised an annual International Summer School for Human Development and Human Rights for development scholars and cso professionals. CSCS was established in 1996 by a group of scholars interested in developing new approaches to studying culture in India. The need was felt to reframe the social sciences and humanities disciplines to be able to de...The Challenge of Pluralism in India
South Asia has been hailed as a region of significant diversity and pluralism for a long time. However, over the last decades, it has also been a hotbed of multiple forms of intolerance, such as religious, ethnic, linguistic chauvinisms and intolerance often manifested in sporadic as well as organised forms of violence. The violence in Gujarat in 2002, for instance, has brought home the concerns about the ease with which mobilisation could be done for genocidal politics.
Beyond Philanthropy
In 2007, Hivos, an international non-governmental organisation inspired by humanist values, formed a partnership with Logica, a global IT company, and the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiua Foundation (MVF), an Indian organisation working to abolish child labour. This NGO–business partnership, lasting four years, engaged highly skilled Logica consultants from the Netherlands and India to work with MVF to develop a management information system (MIS) and child monitoring system (CMS). This partnership...
Anna Hazare's Anti-corruption struggle
Amidst the European Headlines of the Euro-crisis, Anna Hazare's fight against corruption in Indias seems a rather marginal affair for developments in Europe. Yet, argues Peter Konijn from the 'Knowing Emerging Powers Programme', domestic affairs in emerging powers like India are increasingly global in nature and so we have to get used to considering their international implications.