M. A. Kalam
M.A. Kalam , anthropologist, is Professor of Applied Social Sciences, C.K. Prahalad Centre for Emerging India, Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai. Before joining LIBA, Kalam was Professor of Eminence at Tezpur Central University, Assam. Prior to moving to Assam, he was the Head of the Department of Anthropology and Chairperson (Dean) School of Social Sciences, University of Madras, Chennai.
For a young anthropologist living in the U.K.’s largely Pakistani neighbourhood, Bradford, news of the demolition of Babri Masjid was a bombshell.
Independent India was conceived as a celebration of indigenous diversity. Making the case for progressing from diversity to pluralism, M.A. Kalam
Some sections of millennial India, not too familiar with the country’s recent past as a left-of-centre planned economy, see themselves as potential en