Akshay Ranade

Akshay Ranade currently serves as the director at the Dr Shripati Shastri Research Institute of Social Sciences and is the co-founder and director of the Mimamsa Foundation for Indic Studies, a research forum dedicated to providing objective, well-researched perspectives on India. His research interests include India’s foreign and security policy, Asian security affairs, Indian political thought, contemporary Indian political history, and India’s civilizational narratives. He generally writes on issues at the intersection of India’s strategic, political, and civilizational thought.

The case of Umar Khalid: how public debate has got it wrong

Personal liberty, in any democracy, is not a favour the government hands out to its citizens. It is a basic right that the state...

Brahmanical patriarchy: the making of a political category

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent invocation of the Manusmriti in a recent program in Pune to characterize the Indian social order and to point...