Have we sexed love? Do we frame love only within the lust for bodily pleasure? Maybe we have to ask another similar question. How do we frame violence? Do we sex violence? Do we locate violence only within sexed or gendered relationships? Is this only way we can name and unname violence? Michel Foucault raised this question. It is...
Lawless enforcement of law
Law requires to be enforced. We do have several enforcing agencies in our country and the police is the chief among them. But today unfortunately, some among us have taken up the work of police in our society. It is paradoxical that these gangs try to uphold law by breaking the law. This is very clear from the activities...
Dalit Lives Matter
Our worst fears are becoming real thick and fast. Our country appears to be fast becoming a banana republic. We have several indicators of weakening of our judiciary, high handedness of the police, crimes against women and Dalit community, denial of crucial data, rising prices, job losses, sinking economy, our standoff with China etc., forcefully manifest that we are...
The Biology of Violence: Ethico-Philosophical Response
The dominant model to understand violence for the most part of the twentieth century was exclusively based on sociological and psychological models. Bruce Lipton’s, The Biology of Belief, teaches that our belief has a significant role in our genetic expression and also seems to support these models to some extent. But today we have new developments in science that...
