It appears that India is still haunted by modernity, colonialism and coloniality. The modern world as well as modern India is a co-invention of the colonizer and the colonized. Colonization was based on the what Anibal Quijano termed coloniality of power. Coloniality of power produced power differential that is viewed as colonial difference by Quijano. Colonial difference justified colonization...
Smart City and Democratic Governance
It is thought that a smart city enhances the quality of human life. This is why they are looked upon as smart ‘ livable spaces’. It is thought that a smart city will boost economic development , make services available without any hassles and improve citizens wellbeing. The smart polis reminds us of Aristotle’s Polis. Plato would not accept...
Between Closed and Unclosed Discourse
With Rahul Gandhi openly declaring that the fight of Congress in India as not simply with BJP and RSS but one that includes the Indian State, the BJP seemed to have acquired more ammunition to change to political discourse to the supposed treason of Rahul against the Indian state. In order to resist the discursive subject positions offered by...
Denegating the RSS-BJP Effect
By denying the 15th August 1947 as the independence day of our country, the RSS chief has broken the ‘We’ of our country. He has put our nation under erasure. Hence, we have the challenge to denegate his negation. Maybe Jacques Derrida might offer us ways to understand and respond to it. Denegation is not Hegelian anti-thesis. It is...
Can doing Ambedkar put BJP out of Fashion?
The controversial speech of the home mister Amit Shah has stirred feelings of anger among the Dalits. We can notice how people have demonstrated their pain and anger against the derogatory remarks of the H M. Congress and the opposition have already demanded apology and resignation of the H M. While the ruling BJP has tried to come out...
The Regimes of Time
We experience time as a regime. It imposes its discipline on us. A regime of time regiments time. It breaks time into past, present and the future. This regimentation of time also regiments or divides us. As we are at the threshold of a new year 2025 , it would be important to explore how we negotiate the borders...
Between Statizens and Citizens : India at Cross Roads
Is the multitude valorized by Antonio Negri dying into solitude of Byung Chul Han. Negri like Karl Marx saw an emancipative future where the multitude will bring down the Empire. What makes the multitude of course is different for both Marx and Negri. Why is the resistance not coming in an economically uneven world of today. The condition is...
Power at Play in India
What is the kind of power apparatus do we see in India today ? India under Modi seems to be under sovereign power. It appears that Modi is ruling with a strong hand. Maybe some of us may say that we are become a disciplinary society. We as citizens are told with the force of power what we have...
The Losers of History and History of the Losers
Power makes us provincial. We become insensitive to the pain of the suffering other. Power, thus, not just provincializes the powerful, it also provincializes those on whom power is exercised. But those who are on the underside of boot of power refuse to remain on the underside of history. People who are losers of history are willing to wait...
Excess/Surplus: A Critical Exploration in Modi’s India
Introduction Modi’s India has witnessed significant economic, social and political shifts. We have entered surplus. India has become intensely excessive place. We see this surplus through the work of Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx and Michele Foucault interplay of surplus enjoyment, surplus value and surplus power reveals complexities in power dynamics, economic structures and social hierarchies. Surplus Enjoyment (Jouissance) 1....