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Raghu Karnad

Raghu Karnad

Bangalore Pride

Foreign Affairs
13 May 2013

The curious position of queer rights in India is this: although it is opposed, it has no clear opponent. The severe social taboo is real enough, but its representatives, when they form up, usually appear as a motley bunch of eccentrics and stodgy clerical officials, shuffling through an unstudied brief against homosexuality. More…

Raghu Karnad

Broad-Gauge

Foreign Affairs
31 August 2012

The events in Bangalore reveal new evidence that, in the parlance of social capital theory, electronic networking is more effective at producing “bonding” capital within groups than “bridging” capital between them. There’s nothing new about the use of the digital network to mobilize people. What’s new is using it to terrorize them. More…