In the vibrant Catholic culture of Goa, novenas and feasts stand at the heart of communal life. The faithful crowd churches for nine days of intense prayer before the feast of a patron saint. Processions wind through the village centre around the Church with brass bands and flower-decked statues and confraria members distinctly dressed for the occasion. Pastoral programs...
From Hegelian Dialectics to the Metaxu: A Shift Toward Dialogical
In Western thought, the question of relations has always carried profound implications. Aristotle treated relations as external and accidental. For him, a substance possesses its own stable identity, and any connection to another thing remains secondary, an addition that does not touch the core of what the thing essentially is. This view preserves the integrity of individual beings...
Reinterpreting Plato’s Cave : Latour’s, Serres’, and a Quantum Path to a Pluriversal Spring time for Humanity
(Paper presented for an international conference at Madras University on 28th January 2026) This paper reinterprets Plato’s Allegory of the Cave through the lenses of Bruno Latour and Michel Serres, proposing a quantum-inspired pathway toward a “pluriversal springtime” for humanity—a renewed planetary civilization that harmonizes unity with diversity. Latour critiques the Cave as a modernist “Constitution” enforcing dual ruptures...
Philosophy of Boredom
Life has become accelerated and boredom is a luxury of our generation. The myth of Sisyphus that has set the clock of our life from morning to night. We are trapped in a rat race. Time seems to be ahead of us and it is not on our side and the concerns about the deadlines of the jobs to...
Plato’s Cave, Lacan’s Subjectification and Jnana Deepa (Pune)
As Jnana Deepa, the Papal Atheneum crosses the milestone of its century, I exude with joy for my alma mater and see this important event as a paschal crossing over to us all. In this critical effort, I attempt to construct this paschal crossing over in the light of traversal subjectification of Lacan and try to manifest as well...
Alito Siqueira: A Mentor Paving the Way for Goykarpon’s Flourishing Future
In the heart of Goa, where vibrant culture meets a dynamic community spirit, Alito Siqueira has emerged as a pivotal figure in nurturing the essence of Goykarpon—a term that encapsulates the pride, identity, and resilience of Goan heritage. Through his dedicated mentoring role, Siqueira has become a beacon of inspiration, guiding individuals and collectives to preserve and promote the...
Deimperializing Anthropology
The task of dimperialization of theology might have to begin with the deimperialization of anthropology. Almost all theology is anthropocentric that puts man at the center of the universe and the scheme of salvation. Humanities were also developed within this anthropocentric background. Perhaps, even the contestation of Galielo’s heliocentrism or Darwinian theory of evolution is certainly rooted in an...
Regimes of the Same and Regimes of the other (2) —Disenclosing the Hermeneutics of Production
How does the regimes of the same and the regimes of the other work? This question is attempting to do hermeneutics of production in Deleuzean style. When we are discussing regimes of the same and the regimes of the other, we are doing what Deleuze and Guattari did when they were taking about regimes of signs. But there is...
Desire and Lacan
How do we understand desire? We find that human desire is triggered and nurtured by several factors. We shall take Jacques Lacan’s method as the way of deciphering human desire. Humans are never outside desire. Not to want something is also desire. There is no desireless condition at least on this side of the grave. But it defies articulation....
Is the Reader Dead?
Death is always untimely. Time is not on the side of death. The coming of post-truth seems to have proclaimed the death of a reader. We seem to experiencing the theft of truth. Mass media has become the cheer leaders of the rulers. Critical voices are silenced. With the reader dying darkness seems to have descended on us. Critical...
