One image will be remembered as the poster of the massive “Cockroach movement” in India. A lady standing in front of a police van full of freshly arrested protesters, one hand stretched out against the metal hood: she refused to move, for 40 minutes, under heavy monsoon rain in Mumbai. The image broke the internet and went viral, capturing the essence of the protest that forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make one of his Union ministers step down after public uproar, for the first time in 12 years. A movement that has become a pain in the neck for the Indian PM, who has to deal with the fallout from one of the hardest challenges his government had to face in years.
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PublicationsAsia
This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective.
Videos Asia
How can the relationship between the State and civil society be undestood in a Chinese perspective? Runya Qiaoan gives her assessment in this video-interview shot on the margins of Reset DOC’s 2022 Venice Seminars, “Between State and Civil Society: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity?”
ConveningAsia
Join us on Thursday March 7th at 8 am EST / 2pm CET / 6:30pm IST to dissect the implications of Modi’s triumphalism, the erosion of India’s federal system, and how will this impact India’s international aspirations after India’s upcoming elections.
Join us online for a momentous virtial roundtable on Friday 11 March at 12pm EST / 6pm CET – With José Casanova, Craig Calhoun, Sean Golden, Andrea Graziosi, Shada Islam, Marlene Laruelle, Mikhail Minakov
Robert W. Hefner will join Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to discuss the background to and aftermath of his major work Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (2000) and the promises and limitations for democratization in Muslim-majority countries two decades later.