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R P Misra (1930–2021)

Vol. 56, Issue No. 20, 15 May, 2021
V K Natraj

The article is a tribute to R P Misra—the social scientist—who did seminal work in regional planning, tried to revamp the geography curriculum and brought in innovation in the academic institution he built, all of this in an alien environment.

 

D L Sheth (1932–2021)

Vol. 56, Issue No. 20, 15 May, 2021
Peter Ronald deSouza

Dhirubhai Sheth’s intellectual quest was to reinvent social and political theory based on innovations coming from India. The test for a theory of Indian politics was a sustained dialogue between academics and activists—evidenced in his co-founding of Lokayan and Lokniti. Democracy was at the centre of all he thought and wrote about. All pretenders to it were his enemies.

 

Remembering Justice P N Bhagwati

Vol. 52, Issue No. 30, 29 Jul, 2017
Geetanjoy Sahu

Justice P N Bhagwati’s efforts to address the rights of prisoners, bonded labour, child labour, conditions of inmates of various asylums, the right of the poor to education, shelter and other essential amenities, and protecting and improving the environment with an additional emphasis on social justice continue to influence the legal minds of the country.

From​ 50 Years Ago—​A Tribute to the Founder-Editor of EPW, Sachin Chaudhuri

Vol. 51, Issue No. 52, 24 Dec, 2016

Sachin Chaudhuri was the founder–editor of EPW. Below, we reproduce a tribute that was published after his death in the 24 December 1966 issue.

Ravinder Kumar: A Personal Tribute

Vol. 36, Issue No. 17, 28 Apr, 2001
Upendra Baxi

One shudders to think of the colossal national waste which would have resulted in the absence of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library that gave Ravinder Kumar the eminent national space to shape both disciplinary and public dialogue on the future of Indian development. As its director, for well over a decade, Ravinder Kumar deployed that space to nourish forms of reflexive scholarship, in ways that many Indian campuses still unfortunately fail to do.

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