Loving Again

Do we have to re-invent love? Is love dead? Or is it gravely ill? Who is responsible for this plight of love? Maybe it is our excessive individualism that has put the last nail in the coffin of love. Maybe it is our effort to determine the market value of everything that has led to the commodification of love....

Other Political Orders

There is position that Indian culture is distinct and distant from the Western traditions. This is an ahistorical position. India has never truly insulated itself from outside. It has evolved in dialogue and dialectics with its outside. At the most, we can accept that self-conscious Indian focus to distance Indian culture from the West appears to be genuinely indigenous....

The Divisive Multiplication

The coloniser and his world are still living in our post-colonial times. To discern its existence, we have what we may call semiotic transposition. Transposition is practised in music whereby we are enabled to scramble and reassemble the same notes and reach a new order of the scale of music. We are similarly having a new assemblage of the...

Anarcho-communalism

Marxists reduced everything to class struggle. In India are we are producing oppo-Marxism (opposite of Marxism) on the other side of the spiral? Does this mean everything is reducible to ethno-religious struggle in our country? Are we not reproducing or transposing western conception of nation, law, and sovereignty onto our indigenous cultures? Can we truly avoid it? When we...

Lines of Life

We cling to things and persons from our birth. We can see how babies cling to toys and to the caregivers especially. We are indeed clingers. We cling to each other or things for security. We also cling to persons to express love and care. Our clinging is at the basis of our sociality. What happens when we cling...

GREETINGS

Hate is not the first enemy of love.

Fear is! It destroys your ability to trust.

- Fr Victor Ferrao