Its not Cricket ! II

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...

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...

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...

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