Shiv Visvanathan

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

Shiv Visvanathan

The earlier eras were not regimented. A sense of aesthetic and eccentricity dominated science then

Missing in India: The aesthetics of beautiful minds

Shiv Visvanathan

13 Oct 2026

4 min read

The region, with its multiplicity of languages, can also give birth to another kind of imagination

Seeing South Asia as more than a sum of its parts

Shiv Visvanathan

29 Sep 2026

4 min read

Violence today is not the old kind of brutality. It is abstract and to a certain extent, it’s captured and relayed in numbers

Why the world remains numb to the genocide in Gaza

Shiv Visvanathan

15 Sep 2026

4 min read

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

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