Architecture and Power
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- Dec 24, 2019
- 4 min
Curfewed Nights – Part II
The protests and the violence along with it spread like wildfire. To make matters worse we had Akhil Gogoi, leader of the Krishak Mukti...
- Dec 24, 2019
- 6 min
Curfewed Nights – Part I
There was an easiness in the winter breeze that blew on December 8, 2019. I say that because nature always has its way of indicating...
- Aug 11, 2019
- 4 min
Parag Das and the Search for Assamese Identity
In contemporary history of Assam, Parag Das is the most important thinker and activist who provided the ideological foundation for...
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
How To Actually Change the World
If there has been a political figure with a legacy so untouched and untarnished, it has to be Mahatma Gandhi. Orwell wrote of Gandhi, a...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 11 min
The Two Cultures Revisited: On Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ | Jared Marcel Pollen
Does the Enlightenment require a defense? Aren’t its truths demonstrative and self-evident? In 2018, that a book like Steven...
- May 22, 2018
- 1 min
Noam Chomsky: China’s constitutional amendment is another dangerous and unfortunate step towar
The constitutional amendment is another dangerous and unfortunate step towards autocracy and repression in China. It has actually been...
- Mar 25, 2018
- 7 min
The Violence of Security (Part II) | Dibyesh Anand
For Part I, click here. Representing ‘the Muslim’ as a Danger ‘The Muslim’ as an object of insecurity in the Hindutva discourse inhabits...
- Dec 13, 2017
- 3 min
Bring Down The Racists (Part I) | Swagat Baruah
Swagat Baruah This is the first part of the series on the debate on bringing down statues of human rights violators. On August 12, 2017,...
- Jul 5, 2017
- 7 min
When Russians Were Equated With “Being Evil”: America’s Age of Hatred | Aniket Cha
Aniket Charan Since time immemorial, the American government has waged a brutal and oppressive war against flag bearers of communist, or...
- May 26, 2017
- 5 min
Badlu Ram and The Assam Regiment: The Legend that Lives On | Abhinaba Sarkar
Abhinaba Sarkar If one ever gets a chance to witness a kasam parade, or the passing-out parade, of the new recruits enlisting into the...
- Apr 24, 2017
- 8 min
Khatyn Massacre: One of The Worst Nazi Atrocities | Shantanu Singh
Shantanu Singh Posted in his capacity as one of many Nazi officers in erstwhile Belorussia of 1941, Wehrmacht Ober-Gefreite, or Lance...
- Mar 22, 2017
- 5 min
Checkmate: John Cage and Marcel Duchamp | Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar Lowell Cross, an American student at the University of Toronto. John Cage, the famous experimental composer. One...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 5 min
History of Daguerreotype| Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar January 7, 1839: Something happened on this day in the French Académie des Sciences that would forever change the...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 15 min
On Sadomasochism|Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar Sadomasochism is an eroticised exchange of dualities. Two words. Two worlds: Power and Pain. Bondage and Freedom....
- Feb 7, 2017
- 5 min
When the Dragon Took a Beating|Aniket Singh Charan
Aniket Singh Charan My roommate is an Army BRAT. A proud, headstrong, ‘The Indian Army is the best organisation in the world’ kind of...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 8 min
History of Marginalia | Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar Marginalia is a Latin word which comes from marginis (in the margins). There is something beautiful and erotic of being...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 10 min
A Prisoner Of Birth-The Trial and Conviction of the Last Fuhrer
Aniket Singh Charan On the 1st of May 1945 Admiral Karl Donitz of the Kreigsmarine (The German Navy) became the last Fuhrer of the Third...
- Jan 24, 2017
- 6 min
History of Blue | Prerna Anilkumar
Prerna Anilkumar Blue is the colour of distance. Of melancholy. Of emotion. Of desire. Of solitude. Of eroticism. Of the unattainable. Of...