Saroj Giri

Saroj Giri is a lecturer in Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi. He writes on contemporary social and political issues and is an activist.

Europe's refugee-love

Fear pushes us to know the social and political determinations of refugees from a right-wing perspective ('are they potential ISIS militants?'). But compassion works by blinding us to it.

By Saroj Giri

/ 14 Sep 2015

Europe's refugee-love

Fear pushes us to know the social and political determinations of refugees from a right-wing perspective ('are they potential ISIS militants?'). But compassion works by blinding us to it.

By Saroj Giri

/ 14 Sep 2015

The idea of India

This is a concept that operates not by concealing the actual conditions, but by creating its own 'reality': the reality of communalism as a deviation from secularism and the constitution.

By Saroj Giri

/ 26 Jul 2015

Modi-fied India's growth-friendly sectarianism

A secular right-wing and a growth-friendly communalism will be the new name for Hindutva's sectarian extremism.

By Saroj Giri

/ 18 May 2014

Unfortunately Niall Ferguson has managed to distract Pankaj Mishra from the main theatre of empire-building today which is more than just western superiority or domination. Both reify ‘western domination’, crediting it with an unmerited force and power.

By Saroj Giri

/ 18 Dec 2011

London stopped and searched

The black youth, together with the ‘feral scum’ of other colours, has always been stopped and searched, detained. But what happens when he/she stops and searches detains the city?

By Saroj Giri

/ 14 Aug 2011

Libya in context: imperialists no longer paper tigers?

Maybe saving the lives of civilians by taking away their fundamental political agency is the real problem with UN-NATO interventions, rather than some hidden economic self-interest.

By Saroj Giri

/ 4 Apr 2011

End of ‘1989’?

The Arab world has spoken truth to power in ways that question the celebration of western style democracies and the ‘end of history’ marked by the ‘1989 velvet revolutions’.

By Saroj Giri

/ 1 Mar 2011

‘Where is India’s Tahrir Square?’

This is a question that may be as interesting for people in Egypt as it is for those in India. The answer also has some implications for activists in the much-vaunted western democracies

By Saroj Giri

/ 17 Feb 2011

Hang on a minute with ‘the domino effect’

It is the deeper process of social transformation which should spread from one country to the other and not just some hollowed out ‘pro-democracy movement’.

By Saroj Giri

/ 13 Feb 2011