The government describes all its actions as a sine qua non and as time will progress the actions will become a sine qua non for democracy itself. It thus sounds ridiculous and there would be people predicting a potential for an Orwellian regime. A citizen is compulsively transparent to the government but the other Read More …
Category: Politics & Society
Regulation of Affect: A Process Secret Enough to Determine Grievability
Neither can truth be suppressed nor should it be that way no matter what come may. What comes to the mind at first while thinking of truth is the correspondence theory of truth which was advocated by Moore and Russel. Truth, when in a conjectural relationship with reality and believes, may vary as belief Read More …
On Walls: The Modern Geopolitical Imaginary
Walls, apart from being inherent to the construction of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, have proved themselves to be instrumental in maintaining issues emerging out of economic disparities and at the same time determine cases of inclusion-exclusion, identity-difference within its purview. Different types of walls, from the digital firewall to the Hadrian’s wall to the Great China Read More …
Leon Trotsky: The Wall of Marxism
What is the most important thing that a goal keeper trusts when his team is penalised by the referee just outside the penalty box and the opposition has been awarded a free kick! The answer frames itself as a four letter word called “Wall.” Therefore a Wall can be metaphorically represented as a defence system, Read More …
Bank Robbery: Penetrating the Walls of Bank Privatisation
The neo-liberal policies have definitely prompted smile in the faces of certain individuals in India. A definite cure from the economic ailments, which was somewhat guaranteed by some of the leading global financial institutions. What more a government could do, other than surrendering itself to their terms and conditions. Was the Indian government fooled? Absolutely Read More …
Debunking the Myth of Free-Market and Liberalism
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a grotesque ethos of celebration present in the Western Imperialist Camps especially that of the United States of America. While there were many odes to joys being sung, the vacuum created by the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to a very lunatic Read More …
Purulia Arms Drop: A Deliberation Masked by the Myth of Liberation
When the nauseating sky over Purulia started vomiting guns during the night of December 17, 1995, no one knew that it would be theorised as the most devastating conspiracy of this nation. Budhaditya Bhattacharjee writes a holistic & investigative story with the latest developments. During the night of December 17, 1995, a Russian Read More …
TO-I-LET
What an irony of postmodernity would it be, if the entire human civilization feels as if all the knowledge earned, creativity nourished and the intellectuality developed are released out of the body every day in the sacred toilet, and no doubt the toilet paper has been so much lucky to be the carrier of such Read More …