April 2008

Games of Self-Respect: A Colony at the Olympics


EXTRACT India was the first colonised Asian nation to take part in the Olympic Games. Its embrace of the Olympic movement, while still a British colony, was no mere coincidence. It was intricately linked to the forces of nationalism, the politics of self-respect and indeed the inculcation of what has been called the British ‘Games […..]




Negotiating 24-Hour News: Satellite Television, Democratic Politics and Globalization in Contemporary India


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