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....
Towards a Knowledge-Centric Classroom
The classroom is the worst place of learning’ says John Dewey. The classroom is a place of teaching. There is a lot of teaching and less of learning in the classroom. We are absilenced, domesticated and taught community. Therefore, we have the challenge to build learning communities. This would require us to transform our classroom into a learning space....
Political Emotions to Build India
All societies are full of emotions. Emotions are glue as well as engine on which societies run. Often these emotions have little or nothing to do with political principles and public culture. The emotions rise from time to time based on the political culture that channel peoples energy to key commitments. Perhaps, it may be important to ask what...
Disciplinary Societies and the Anti-Oedipus
Has India become a disciplinary society that Michel Foucault described? Foucault located disciplinary societies in the 18th and the 19th century. He said that they reached their zenith at the beginning of the 20th century. Did it arrive late in India? Is it because we are not coeval with the West? Society of disciple is about control of enclosed...
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....
Multiplied Additions and Subtractions
The semiotic analysis that we have undertaken in our previous article, titled, Divisive Multiplication takes us to the synchronic markers that link together the colonial morphemes to our Indic elements and in our post-colonial society. The colonial has ,therefore, smoothly come to live in the postcolonial. The colonial is in what is now parading as nationalism the we have...
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...
Towards a Postanthropology : Humanifying Anthropology
We live by putting out a line, says social anthropologist Tim Ingold. Our line interacts with other lines put out by other humans. Life is a linology. Gilles Deleuze teaches us that we live along a line. As we live along the lines of life, we respond to other lines. Every life is a line, and we live continually...
