Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:06:20 +0000

Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be free—and why does freedom so often slip through our hands?

In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers’ Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.