Shiv Visvanathan

Social scientist associated with the Compost Heap, a group researching alternative imaginations.

Shiv Visvanathan

For Gandhi, everything from prayer to protest was open to reinvention

The Mahatma as a futurist in disguise

Shiv Visvanathan

31 Aug 2026

4 min read

The youth protest was open-ended, experimental. It was an attempt to articulate tacitly issues of knowledge, education and the future

A future full of youthful possibilities

Shiv Visvanathan

17 Aug 2026

4 min read

The political protest might be insignificant in an historical sense, but it has a new act of storytelling

Student protests | Using body politics against a thesaurus of negligence

Shiv Visvanathan

03 Aug 2026

4 min read

The availability of eccentricity and difference creates the promise of an opposition as a different kind of landscape, playfully celebrating difference

India's future needs a new opposition

Shiv Visvanathan

23 Jul 2026

4 min read

Democracy has to learn to celebrate diversity, electoral systems, the centre as well as the periphery, minority and majority

Wisdom in allowing a dose of anarchy in democracy

Shiv Visvanathan

06 Jul 2026

4 min read

Between language, interpretation, invention, poetry, literature, make sure that diversity is both self-sustaining and life-enduring

Many colours in kaleidoscope of democracy

Shiv Visvanathan

08 Jun 2026

4 min read

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