We have seen politics of apology all over the globe. We in India have our own share of this politics. We are witnessing how this politics of apology is stalling our Parliament these days. In the name of our democracy and country being offended abroad ironically the temple of democracy, the Parliament is not allowed to function . This...
The Modani Question and its Goan Ripples
The Adani crisis is greeted as the Modani crisis. In several ways, some of the mud that is hurled at the face of the Prime Minister seems to stick. This is so because it is Adani himself who has framed the crisis as a calculated attack on India. In his attempt to seek cover behind the proverbial foreign hand,...
Between Disciplinary Society and Society of Achievement
We no longer have Michel Foucault’s disciplinary society. This is a bold claim of Byung-Chul Han. With rising digitization, we saw that Gilles Deleuze told us that we have entered societies of control. Even as we are undergoing further digitization, Byung-Chul Han further says that we have already entered society of achievement. Maybe it is important to examine this...
Saving Democracy from Itself
Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that with the rise of democracy we have reached the end of history. He boldly said that political evolution had reached its zenith with the coming of Democracy and there is nothing more to come. Jacques Derrida contested Fukuyama and argued that there is more democracy to come. Staying within this thought, we see that the...
The Politic of Jumping Jacks
Goa was yet to get out of the pain of MLA’s crossing sides that yet another batch of 8 Congress MLAs crossed over to the BJP taking the number of these defections into BJP to 20 if we care to count these jumping Jacks of the last term as well as the present term respectively. Everyone has called out...
Thinking Indian (II)
All social contract theories are intertwined with what we call the state of nature. Despite introducing evolution into his notion of the state of nature, Jean Jacque Russeau still singularizes homogenizes and renders good the state of nature. We seem to be all children of Russeau and submit to his notion of the state of nature in several ways....
Thinking India
How do we Indians think? Are we thinking through avidya or ignorance? Are we thinking with the grain of our reality? Are we thinking against it? Are we entangled in the worlds of maya? It appears so. Nothing seems to perturb us. Plato thought thinking was anamnesis /unforgetting. Thinking to Plato was remembering our life in the perfect world....
The Denial of Birth Right
The politics of hate has consumed our society. The fire of hate campaigns refuses to extinguish. We seem to have set the Hobbesian state of nature in our society. Maybe if we ask what we are doing to the third party in this strive has the key to awaken us. The Hindu/Muslim politics unleashed by the ruling benches is...
Apocalyptic and the Ecstatic
Is it the end game for the minorities in India? Is it the end time for them? Are any opportunities lurking in otherwise what appears as an atmosphere of darkness and doom? I do not what to sound cynical. But the way majoritarianism has taken hold over us, it seems that even Bollywood is melting away right in front...
Upper Caste Vaccine
With what appears as the deliberate use of ED against the leaders of the opposition, many critics feared that India was turning into a police state. What happened to Bilkis Bano seems to have taken us closer to what may be described as a banana republic for lack of words that can accurately describe, the condition of our country....
