Articles by Chandrashekhar G Ranade

The recent ban on cow slaughter in Maharashtra, expanded to include both cows and bulls, has caused a commotion in several quarters. This is already affecting the leather industry from Mumbai to Chennai. I would suggest that the various governments and related public bodies in India should promote...

I was pained to read the editorial urging the Prime Minster of India, Narendra Modi, to speak out against those who are dividing the present India ("Will Narendra Modi Speak Out?", EPW, 13 December 2014). My gut feeling is that Modi will not speak out against those people because those are the...

I am not sure if the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) chief has contemplated the implications of his aadesh (order) to ban the meat exports from India, this in his annual address on 3 October 2014 on the day of the Vijayadasami festival. India is a significant exporter of meat, which is basically...

EPW’s editorial “Anger, Aspiration, Apprehension” (24 May 2014) has correctly raised serious concerns about the prime minister elect from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi. Apart from the influence of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in politics, at this stage I have two more concerns about...

In one of his last articles in EPW, the China scholar, late G P Deshpande (“Celebrating Nehru? Well, Almost”, EPW, 15 December 2012) had informed readers that China is opening some kind of museum on Jawaharlal Nehru. I was in China from 7 to 13 February 2014 and took out two days to visit Chongqing...