‘South Asia @ LSE’ is the Centre’s flagship academic blog, publishing cutting-edge academic ideas to foster informed debate and discussion. Since 2021, ‘South Asia @ LSE’ has consistently ranked amongst the top 10 (out of 40+) academic blogs at LSE, with nearly half a million readers every year.
We are the only Centre in a Higher Education institution anywhere in the world to have published a series of 12 special blogposts to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s independence (August 2022-July 2023), covering a variety of topics written by academics and thought leaders at LSE and across the globe. These have been widely read and greatly appreciated. All the special blogs are listed below in reverse order.
July 2023: Souzeina Mushtaq and Praveen K. Chaudhry, ‘Chasing a Dying River: The Yamuna in Delhi’
June 2023: Faisal Devji, ‘The Fate of Muslim Politics in India’
May 2023: Sweety Supriya, ‘Foreign Universities and Higher Education in India’
April 2023: Kaushik Bhaumik, ‘India @ 75, Ray @ 101: Some Thoughts on the Nation and the World’
March 2023: Amogh Dhar Sharma, ‘Concertina Wires and the Crocodile: The General Elections of 1984 and the Rise of Political Marketing in India’
February 2023: Sanjay Srivastava, ‘Modernity and the Politics of “Personality”: Or Who is Scared of Neo-liberalism?’
January 2023: Suraj Yengde, ‘An Architecture of Our Time’
December 2022: Nivedita Krishna, ‘Why do CSR Funds not Include the LGBTQIA+ Sector in India?’
November 2022: Kalpana Kannabiran, ‘A Genealogy of Civil Liberties in Independent India’
October 2022: Urvi Mukhopadhyay, ‘Scars and Adornments: The Urban Life of Calcutta since 1947’
September 2022: Niraja Gopal Jayal, 'Hansa Mehta: An Early Indian Feminist’
August 2022: Harsh V. Pant, ‘An Aspirational India on the Global Stage’
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