| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Gopal: Students Revolt - The End of the Phony War?
Znet Article, November, 16 2010
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
The current cuts will amount to 50 percent across the board for universities and in due course, much much more for certain subjects...
Gopal: Higher Education and the New Philistines
Znet Article, March, 26 2010
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
Freedom, democracy and widening social participation through education are fine ideas. Especially in other people’s countries and societies. Billions can be spent and two wars waged in the name of these high-minded ideals.
Gopal: Free Binayak Sen
Znet Article, May, 13 2009
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
The most prominent victim of an increasing criminalization of India's strong traditions of dissent is Dr. Binayak Sen, arrested on 14 May 2007 on charges of abetting Maoist insurgency in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
Gopal: Free Binayak Sen
Znet Article, May, 13 2009
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
The most prominent victim of an increasing criminalization of India's strong traditions of dissent is Dr. Binayak Sen, arrested on 14 May 2007 on charges of abetting Maoist insurgency in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
Gopal: Sarah Palin's female. That doesn't make her feminist
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
Some feminists lament the glossy rise of Sarah Palin, others rush with sisterly ostentation to defend her from sexism even as they repudiate her politics. While plenty of typeface has been expended on analysing her obvious and myriad failings as a...
Gopal: Mugabe, Britain and the abuses of anti-colonialism
Znet Article, June, 28 2008
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
We should recognise that Zimbabwe was brutalised by colonisation. But Mugabe liberated his country only to install another tyranny...
Gopal: A shameful silence
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
We have become accustomed to theatrical displays of intolerance: death threats against writers, bonfires of novels, plays shut down, vandals defacing paintings. The danger, however, is that this obscures the more insidious forms that the suppressi...
Gopal: The Moral Empire
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Priyamvada Gopal
Gopal's ZSpace page
A few years ago, Tony Blair termed the state of Africa a 'scar on the world's conscience'. It was not the first time that the dubious honour of being a moral touchstone had been conferred upon the continent. By the late 19th century too, Africa wa...
