Following the death of his guru, Socrates, it is said that Plato asked a powerful question: ‘how are we to live?’ This question became central to all his writings after the cruel death of his master. The trauma of the death of Socrates had pushed Plato out of the city walls and he gathered his disciples under the grove...
The Clash of Citizens
India has become a boiling pot for the regimes of narcissism and the regimes of despair. An aggressive Hindu nationalism on one side and the despair of the famers, Dalits, students and the minorities on the other side describes the state of our nation. Ashish Nandy aptly indicates that the narcissistic regimes follow the west in their rationalist, technocratic,...
