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Prasanta Chakravarty - Of Demos, Innovation and Affect
Carrying forward the debate around Partha Chatterjee’s article in EPW. In the wake of the development debates around the nation, one witnesses an interesting array of articles—polemical as well as academic—that takes on headlong issues of political intervention by developing the terms of negotiation and deliberation in a certain direction. And that is the story of growing up—that democracy is the story of pragma, of mature understanding of the contestatory space. These are reminders that poli
