A work that delineates the making of the mind of an intellectual wading through ‘uneasy’ patches and perturbing moments in these troubled times—yet growing with it all. Rajni Kothari’s Memoirs, which he calls the ‘journey of my mind’, is not an autobiography; yet it accommodates much more than that genre can offer. He tries to capture the idea of the nation as well as address a plethora of questions that have left his mind in a state of perennial ...
Rethinking Democracy is an insightful and reflective monography on democracy in general and Indian democracy in particular. In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core arguments he has laid down I his diverse writings in the past four decades. Kothari reflects, interrogates and eve contests some of his earlier formulations o democracy, state and civil society, developing a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual and activist experience. Kothari makes a ...