Articles by Arup Kumar Sen

The eminent political philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, characterised the State of Exception as a paradigm of government. He argued that “one of the elements that make the state of exception so difficult to define is certainly its close relationship to civil war, insurrection, and resistance.”...

Bernard D’Mello’s intervention “Where Is the Magazine? Indian Semi-Fascism and the Left” (EPW, 11 October 2014) testifies that passions and dreams are still alive in our political imagination. The author has charted a broad trajectory of counter-hegemonic resistance against neo-liberal capitalism...

EPW is to be commended for posting on its website K N Raj’s “The Politics and Economics of Intermediate Regimes” which was first published in the journal almost four decades ago (EPW, 7 July 1973). This reminds me of K N Raj’s intervention in a major debate in the early 1980s on the topic of “World...

In the recently held parliamentary elections, West Bengal witnessed many incidents of violence. On the eve of the last round of elections, some spectacular violent incidents took place in Kolkata and its neighbourhood. In most of the cases, the tough men associated with the ruling party, Trinamool...

Narendra Modi’s address in a leadership summit held in 2007 highlights different threads of his “liberalism”. He talked about Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to our struggle for Independence and noted that Gandhi converted this struggle into a people’s movement. Modi also preached a liberal variant...