The shiny advertising slogans of "Make in India" tell the story of a modern India, a rapidly growing IT sector, the rising knowledge management industry, and the burgeoning private industry feeding India's growth story. The convent-educated, MTV-watching, Nike-wearing twenty-something is the face of this new India. Aspiring. With dreams of the Big Apple. The pulse of the nation's imagination. Promising in his appeal as the digitally skilled workforce of the new India, the twenty-something presents the image of a global cosmopolitanism. Technologically-savvy, social media-adept, YouTube-conversant. The gloss of modernity is a well performed facade, however. The Domino's, Levi's, and Coldplay obfuscate the casteism that pervades the everyday being of this twenty-something India. Rituals of touch, codes of purity, and practices of boundary-marking define his inner life. He follows the rituals spelt out by his parents. Participates in the custo
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.