The first part of this essay considers Sri Aurobindo’s nationalism and contextualizes it within the colonial-national interchange and the modern understanding of the nation. It then problematizes Hindutva’s attempts to reductively appropriate Sri Aurobindo’s pluralistic and evolutionary nationalism. In the second part, a close reading is conducted of a well-known nationalist speech of Sri Aurob...

Traditional Chinese folk graphics has been the rich cultural heritage of the nation, which provided a wealth of design elements for the modern graphic design. Modern graphic design blends with traditional Chinese folk patterns to give them new characteristics of the times, not only represents the traditional culture and innovation, but also indicates that China's graphic design is entering a ne...

Chinese traditional legal culture and legal system are self organized. The reason is that the concept of etiquette plays an immeasurable impact on the development of China's legal system. In today’s China, such influences still work. They promote or suppress the process of building a modern nation ruled by law. If traditional and modern relationship cannot be correctly handled, the contemporary...

The economic performance of India has often been equated with the slow growth rate of around 3.5 % never quite entering into the ‘take off’ stage of the Rostow's model. Some economists believed, as though the nation was destined for it. At the time of India's independence in the year 1947, the nation had a plethora of serious problems to face, viz. shortage of food-grains, poor infrastructure, ...

This article attempts to map out the changing image of biological family as the central axis of collective moral imagination in Bombay Cinema. Tracing the journey of the nation through three iconic films that were massively successful and helped the nation construct its self-projection, Awara (1951), Deewar (1975), and Satya (1998), mark the birth of an individual who disengages from the epic i...

In his famous book " Democracy and its Critics " (1989), Robert A. Dahl argues that, historically speaking, there have been two transformations of democracy. These transformations have brought about different models of democratic governance and different interpretations of the concept of democracy. By the fi rst transformation Dahl refers to the the emergence of the classical model of democracy...