By Bula Bhadra, University of Calcutta All is never well in the Universities of India. Since independence (1947) experiments with structure and content of university/higher education system has been interminable. The abysmal disparity in terms of access to higher education and availability of everything else necessary to attain quality higher education is disappointing to say [...]

By Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Nandini Sundar, University of Delhi  As social scientists, our research involves field interactions with people, sometimes in conflict situations. Given the importance of relevance and timeliness in our respective disciplines – sociology and political science – we often study issues which deal with politics, and from perspectives which may not [...]

From Sharit K. Bhowmik, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai This is a statement concerning the setting up of the European Studies Centre at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, the inauguration of which is set to take place on the 28th of January in the Department (http://www.iescp.org/index.php/events). Since the idea behind this statement [...]