Who will win both the seats in Goa? Goans have participated in the 18th Lok Sabha. Being liberated late Goa joined the national elections in 1989 in the 9th Lok Sabha election. Soon after liberation, Goa did took part in the national democratic polity. The first two MPs of Goa who represented Goans in the parliament were nominated and...
Challenging Exit Polls
Are exit poll weaponized? Are they simply producing an anchoring effect leading us to think everything from their cognitive bias. We need transparency concerning exit polls. Questions like ‘ What is model that is used? What is sample size ? Does the sample size represent the ground reality ? What is a male female ratio? ‘ has to be...
Decision Research and Prospects of Modi Sarkar
The speeches of the PM Modi during this election have created a lot of bad taste. People think that the language of his political speeches does not suit the stature of a PM. Some say that it is the fear of loss that is pushing the PM to stoop that low. Now that elections are almost done and dusted....
The New Order of Things
The book, The Order Things by Michel Foucault became an instant best seller in France as soon as it was published. In this book, Foucault says that thought that developed under modernity had hit a dead end. At the heart of this diagnosis of the development of thought was the figure of man in particular the finitude of man....
Readings, Misreadings and Power Play in the Mass Media
A single text lends itself to multiple readings that are often contrary to the intentions of the authors. This misreading appears to be deliberate, motivated and preposterous. Maybe the French thinker Jacques Derrida might illumine us to understand the troubled times that we are facing in our nation. Derrida teaches that the disruptive force of deconstructive readings reside within...
Mathematical Modes of Thinking and Lok Sabha 2024 Elections
We have the challenge to open our thinking to mathematical modes of thought. Mathematics emphasizes the formal side of our life and universe. Perhaps, we need the mathematical modes of thinking in politics, particularly , at the time of this Lok Sabha elections. The importance of the mathematical mode of thinking is visible in the way people are demanding...
Has India hit a Modi Fatigue ?
Doubts are already emerging can someone with the political makeup, pugilist outlook, and self-aggrandising tendencies of Modi be tempted to come in the way of the peaceful transfer of power’ writes Anand. K. Sahay in the Wire. For the first time, the moral competence of the Prime Minister of India has come under suspicion. No other Prime Minister had...
The Republic of Fear
Is India becoming a Republic of Fear ? The political discourse of the Prime Minister, Modi has stooped a new low during the ongoing election campaign for the Lok Sabha. Fear seems to have become his main weapon to catch votes. This is why maybe it is important for us to try to understand the power of fear in...
Open and Closed Futures
Open future makes us uncomfortable. We like a closed future that we can anticipate and control. In such a situation, the future is obvious. When the future is uncertain, it becomes unbearable. We desire a closed future. Even open future is unbearable when it is without other humans. Humans cannot be absolutely solitary. But future that is imagined for...
The Politics of Non-space
How do we understand space? What happens when we invest our belonging to a space? Do we mark our boundaries like other animals? Humans as-beings-in-the-world are territorial and territorialize to humanize. When we invest meaning and belonging to a space it becomes a place. There are several modes of territorializations. Some also involve deterritorialization. We have several archeologies of...
