Team India played very well till the day of the final. While we can go ad nauseam speaking about the ‘ifs and buts’ of the match, we will do well to take notice of what we have lost besides cricket . Perhaps, even in its failure the way cricket was played it continues to ask questions to the powers...
It’s not Cricket!
Cricket in India has come a long way. The way the Indian team has played cricket, it has become a great unifier. When politics and caste seek to divide us, cricket appears to be the only glue that hold us together. The sheer joy it enables us to share indeed generates a sense of oneness. In several ways cricket...
Hindutva and Its Other
There is no one way of reading Fredrick Nietzsche. There are several readings of Nietzsche. Maybe we can also understand caste v/s Hindu nationalism in the light of Nietzsche. It might open to us the play field of politics in our country. The Congress and the Opposition are voicing for a caste census while the ruling BJP is opposing...
The Performatics of India/Bharat
Are we facing an INDIA-cide? The unity of the opposition and its appropriation of INDIA as an acronym seems to have led to the nervous BJP to pronounce a death sentence on India. It appears INDIA has amassed a critical force that seems to have snuffed the ground under the feet of the ruling BJP. To understand what is...
The Politics of Face
Several contemporary thinkers exhibit interest in Jesus Christ. Slavoj Zizek for instance, claims that he is a Christian atheist. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari show a strange fascination for the paintings of Christ. These philosophers do not seem to be believers. They view the portraits of Christ as deploying faciality that marks the predominance of a regime of signs...
Moral Imagination and The Intervention of the Intellectual
The intellectual has a special call when the horizon of society appears dark. He/she has the challenge to ignite a spark of light that would illumine the steps of humans in such a society. This task reaches an acute dimension when society seems to have lost its moral calculus. When violence becomes a way of building justice, self-respect and...
The new Body Politic and India-cide
India is sacred to us all. We share the land of India as well as its diverse cultures and the traditions that we built from time immemorial. All Indians form one body of our nation. We invoke India as a mother. This invocation among other things is a body politic. It makes our country a human macrocosm. The fact...
Is Hindutva a Death Drive?
Is Hindutva a Death Drive? It is a map that provides symbolic efficiency to us Indians. It somehow gives us a magical feeling that everything will fall into its place if it is given to run its full course. It seems to have given buoyancy to a narrow self-righteous nationalism that is not national enough. It seems that we...
Politic of Mimetic Resonance and our Ecstasies
The great Buddha taught us that desire is the root of all suffering. Desire never seems to leave us. We all experience it all the time. It animates our world. Do the Buddha. Banish desire. Without desire, we may not have a reason to live or a reason to die. But excessive desires and their lack of fulfilment push...
Populism and its Haunting Fantasies
The mobilization of religion for political ends is not new. The politicization of religion to generate political capital has been an age-old strategy. It seems that it is becoming a winning strategy in our country where Hindutva populism is growing by leaps and bounds. Scholars teach that Populism is born as a result of the crisis of representation. But...
