Issue 17

Limelight | Noam Chomsky: AADHAAR could be used in totally unacceptable ways

Professor Noam Chomsky is a pioneering linguist, philosopher, social critic and political activist. The author of multiple highly cited...

Reflections on ‘Insanity’ | Mitakshara Medhi

By convention, it is said that that behavior which is deviant from the norms and the culture of the individual is called abnormal....

Geert Lovink: Fragmentation of the net is our key aim right now

Geert Lovink, net critic and theorist and advisory editor of Catharsis and Swagat Baruah, managing editor of Catharsis discuss the recent...

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Andy Beckett

Nick Srnicek and the accelerationists saw the Cambridge Analytica scandal coming a long time ago. Last year in August, in The Guardian,...

The Violence of Security (Part III) | Dibyesh Anand

For Part II, click here. For Part I, click here. Visiting a Site of Communal Violence: Gujarat 2002 The anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat...

Whose University Is It Anyway | Ron Srigley

This week’s addition to Sunday Reading List comes from Ron Srigley. Srigley writes a timely essay, critiquing the functioning of...

Plumage | Tanmay Raj Anand

I saw an origami lying white as bright as the plumage of a swan like three striking feathery knives, pecking at poor fishes’ lives. It...

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...

The Violence of Security: Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Representing ‘the Muslim’ as a Dange

The Hindu Right in India Communal violence in India should be understood within the larger context of the struggle and debate over the...

Is it wrong to Topple Statues and rename Schools? (Part II) | Joanna Burch-Brown

This post is a continuation of this article. Objections Almost everybody will agree that there are some cases where the argument above...

Is it Wrong to Topple Statues & Rename Schools? (Part I)| Joanna Burch-Brown

Introduction Social philosophers working in the black freedom traditions, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Stuart Hall and Sally Haslanger, have...

How cultural history shaped politics in Nagaland | Tushar Singh

To someone who does not follow the Nagaland political scenario regularly, it would have been hard to believe that the Nagaland State...

The works of Balkrishna Doshi, first Indian to win Pritzker Architecture Prize | Vrinda Saxena

Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi won the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize on March 7, becoming the first Indian to receive the award...

The Dude Still Abides | Swagat Baruah

The Big Lebowski turned 20 on March 6, 2018. But ‘The Dude’ still abides today, and the film still stands out as one of the best...

Creative Role of The Supreme Court of India in Enlarging and Protecting Human Rights | Soli J. Sorab

Fundamental Rights occupy pride of place in Part III of the Indian Constitution. They inter-alia comprise constitutional guarantees of...