Blog entries

A slightly older conversation about corruption

Srivats — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:04:46 +0100

This is a conversation which took place a few months ago. Posting it since there is so much on other websites. Sort of keeping up! Hope you enjoy it, and do add.

Subject: A conversation about corruption

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Friends,

I am somewhat puzzled by the emotion (staged reaction) and affect (primary reflex) that have arisen in response to Anna Hazare's crusade against corruption. I amRead More...

Some basic information for anti nuclear activism: frequently asked questions about nuclear power

Srivats — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:35:12 +0100

I am reproducing here an FAQ about nuclear power that I had written two years ago for Kannabiran and which was probably translated into Telugu.

Frequently Asked Questions about Nuclear Power

What is nuclear power?

Nuclear power or more precisely, nuclear energy is energy released from the nucleus of atoms. Unlike energy from steam which is released when water boils (at the molecular level) and unlike energy from combustiRead More...

Anveshi Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics -- coming soon!

Anveshi Broadsheet Team — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:13:54 +0100

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce that the first edition of the Anveshi Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics, titled "Nizam's Rule and Muslims: Truth and Fairy Tales about Hyderabad's 'Liberation' will be sent out shortly. It is bilingual -- English and Telugu, and is being tried out in a quarterly format. Click here to see mock up.
The Anveshi Broadsheet Team

Ravinder

LakshmiLV — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:54:07 +0100

Ravinder is the senior most member of presently working staff in Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies. As the single male staffer his presence is a relief for all of us, as his services are very useful and necessary. Ravinder personally feels that he has learned a lot of Read More...

A conversation about Blasphemy and Bigotry

Srivats — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:20:13 +0100

This is the text of a conversation about blasphemy and bigotry that took place a while ago. I am posting it for further discussion and intervention:

Forwarded conversation

Subject: IRead More...

Our Versatile Librarian

Susie — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:54:33 +0100

Anveshi’s quiet and self-effacing librarian, L.V. Lakshmi, has a keen interest in computerization of the library system. She has played a key role in implementing our new on-line catalogue and currently is troubleshooting the new version of the SOUL software. She is also at work on an M.Phil thesis in Library and Information ScieRead More...

Srinivas Vellikad our honorary online library catalog consultant

Srivats — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:01:30 +0100

Srinivas Vellikad is a friend who has been associated with Anveshi since the past several years. He was instrumental in establishing an early version of the library software. Since the past year Srinivas has been working pro bono with the Anveshi library catalog and has found a way to put it successfully on line. He has collaboratRead More...

Tracking Telangana

Suneetha Achyuta — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:49:02 +0100

Tracking Telangana…..

Tracking Telangana is an effort to go behind the scenes of the current Telangana movement. Reasons or outcome apart, this movement is extremely fascinating for its mass democratic character. Distinguished by wide ranging and active participation of diverse sections of population – farmers, lawyers, students, employees, women, Muslims, caste groups, professionals, this a moment in which different kinds of injuries and aspirations are being articuRead More...

Hegel Reading

Srivats — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:27:29 +0100

This is a forum for sharing notes about Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) based on a reading of the hypertext resource available at www.hegel.net. Inevitably, the reading will involve references to his Science of Logic, to Phenomenology, and to commentators like Marx, Lenin, C.L.R.James, Erdmann, Westphal, and others.

It has been set up as a separate Google Group because it is organized as a structure that follows the table of contents of the volume.

Adley Siddiqi our honorary website consultant

Srivats — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:27:42 +0100

Adley Siddiqi is our honorary consultant who has taken charge of the Anveshi website -- very decisively and nicely since the past two years. The website was designed by him in collaboration with Jayasree Kalathil (in London) and with Vasudha and Lakshmi Kutty (at Anveshi, Hyderabad) whoRead More...

Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi of Hyderabad

M.A. Moid — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:09:20 +0100

Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, the long time president of Hyderabad based Muslim political party, Majlis-e –Ittehad ul Muslimeen (MIM/Majlis) died on 29 September 2008 at the age of seventy two (b-1936). The Hindu daily called him a ‘colossus’ andRead More...

Blogs: A new component on the Anveshi website

Srivats — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:25:42 +0100

Dear Friends,

Happy New Year! Welcome to the new initiative on the Anveshi website. Starting January 2010, we will be maintaining a section of our website for blogs from fellows, members and other interested writers. The website will be devoted to academic and activist matters, and will operate according to different criteria. Some will be open forums in which comments from readers will be displayed directly. Others will be more like seminars, where first preference will be givRead More...