We are facing unprecedented human distress during the time of coronavirus pandemic. We are facing tough times and most of it is directly faced by the working class of our country. The 2011 census indicates that India has 5.6 interstate migrants. The actual number must be much higher and might have increased rapidly post 2011. Some estimates say that...
Hesitant Living and its Hauntologies
We struck by a ghostly virus. The spectre of the novel coronavirus is everywhere. It has haunted our life, work and place. It hidden and liminal position of the virus defines the spectrality that haunts the global human community. We can certainly trace a spectral turn in our life. We are living hesitatingly fearing the spectre of the deadly...
Fearsome Lessons from the Corona Resurrection
Can we do a psychoanalysis of the covid-19 pandemic? Will such an exercise open a new window to us to understand our world and ourselves? There is therapy in psychoanalysis. To tap these therapeutic resources, maybe be we have to learn from the work of Slavoj Zizek. Zizek has already done psychoanalysis of several films. One of his efforts...
Facing ourselves at a Time of Coronavirus – I
The crisis that is afflicting us in Indians today is more than an economic and political crisis. It is a crisis of subjectivity. Even at a time of great human distress, we cannot forget the communal virus. The semio-capitalism has pushed us into dark eons of semio-politics. Semio-capitalism and semio-politics are inter-related and have seized us from inside. It...
Goans on Trial
We are living in interestingly dangerous times. With the eruption of coronavirus, we have acquired the power to cough the other to death even we intending nor being conscious of this. While all forms of powers came with great responsibility, we certainly have an immense responsibility to the other as we learn to live with Covid-19. Disruption of all...
