Ishwar Modi

Indian sociology has attained an admirable height in terms of teaching and research. In this achievement the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) has played a significant role over the six decades of its existence. I am extremely happy to be its President from January 2012 for a term of two years. The ISS has nearly 3,500 Life Members from India and some from abroad. Sociology in India is at the crossroads today. Several challenges have appeared in recent years...

When I was reading about the Iranian Editorial team of Global Dialogue (GD2.4), I was stuck by the fact that almost all of them were either undergraduate or graduate students. As compared to them, the Indian team members are fairly old and experienced. The major focus of the team is to provide standard Hindi translation of the complicated technical language of the discipline, which at times proves to be a tough job. We were pleasantly surprised...