The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday December 13th, 2021 – World Violin day
The ‘Modi-fied’ #Indian democracy is a threat not only to its religious minorities but also to its neighbors by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Indian democracy has always been majoritarian since its first day as a republic. As a matter of fact the trend has its roots in the pre-partition days of Congress leadership that did not allow for an inclusive democracy in which Muslim and other non-Hindu minorities could participate on an equal footing. That majoritarian pull of the Hindu leaders like Gandhi, Nehru and Patel pushed Jinnah and tens of millions of Muslims to feel alienated. And the rest is history! Pakistan emerged, albeit moth-eaten, as a separate state.
While all the founding fathers of the Indian republican are dead now but their ghosts are still with us in the likes of Narendra Modi and other Indo-centric politicians to whom majority has the absolute right to decide how India should be run, and who is an Indian and who is not. Thanks to the toxic fascist ideology of Hindutva, promoted under the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)-rule, the non-Hindu minority religious groups are worse off today than any time in the past in India’s volatile history.
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“Tell this to your son” #poem by Shola Balogun
“And when I am gone,
Remember how I wished you tell this to your son
That he should read not my lines”
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Talcott Parsons and the Promise of Transdiscipliarity by Rene Wadlow
Talcott Parsons (13 December 1902 – 8 May 1979) was a leading US sociologist usually considered a member of the structural-functional analysis school. Some of his major theoretical writings are The Structure of Social Action (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1937), Essays in Sociological Theory Pure and Applied (Glencoe, The Free Press, 1949), The Social System (Glencoe: The Free Press, 1951), and Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils (Editors). Toward a General Theory of Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954). Parsons taught at Harvard University and was the doctoral thesis advisor of students who went on to became important figures in the same tradition such as Robert K. Merton Social Theory and Social Structure (Glencoe: The Free Press, 1949), Marion J. Levy Jr The Structure of Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952) and Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973). He also had students who went on to have radically different approaches and who became strong critics of Parsons’ approach such as C. Wright Mills in his The Sociological Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959). Parsons’ approach was also attacked by George Gurvitch (1894-1965) a Russian-born French sociologist who spent the Second World War years in New York City and became knowledgeable with the schools of US sociology.
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Ephemera 21#31 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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