‘Emergency Chronicles’: How NewsClick’s Prabir Purakayastha was abducted by the police as a student

An excerpt from Gyan Prakash’s ‘Emergency Chronicles’ recalls how the founder of site that was subject to raids on Tuesday faced police action in 1975.

Gyan Prakash

· Feb 10, 2021 · 06:30 am

How JNU was conceived of as a small institution of higher learning but turned into a university

‘A Prospectus for a New University’, by Gyan Prakash, excerpted from ‘JNU Stories: The First 50 Years’.

Gyan Prakash

· Dec 28, 2020 · 08:30 am

The Art of Solitude: In the songs of ‘Gaman’, an echo of what ‘home’ means for Mumbai’s immigrants

Muzaffar Ali’s film beautifully represented how struggling taxi drivers lived their daily life while experiencing the unhomely city.

Gyan Prakash

· Apr 24, 2020 · 11:30 am

The Art of Resistance: Varun Gover’s ‘Hum Kaagaz Nahin Dikhayenge’ expresses rock-steady defiance

The poem distills the protest to its essence

Gyan Prakash

· Jan 01, 2020 · 11:45 am

It was India’s Constitution that made the Emergency possible

In ‘Emergency Chronicles’, Gyan Prakash locates the Emergency in a historical process and not as pop-up autocracy.

Gyan Prakash

· Nov 19, 2018 · 05:30 pm

BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta’s criticism of the ‘Not In My Name’ lynchings protests is pure propaganda

His screed against ‘rootless cosmopolitanism’ comes against the background of almost daily reports of violence by gau rakshaks and attacks on Muslims.

Gyan Prakash

· Jul 03, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Why the attack on JNU and the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar is (and is not) like the Emergency

2016 echoes but is not 1975. India has changed, and so has JNU.

Gyan Prakash

· Feb 21, 2016 · 06:30 pm