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...
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- Mar 31, 2018
- 7 min
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....
- Mar 31, 2018
- 6 min
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...
- Mar 28, 2018
- 1 min
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,...
- Mar 26, 2018
- 6 min
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...
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
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...
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
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...
- 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...
- Mar 22, 2018
- 6 min
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...
- Mar 22, 2018
- 13 min
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...
- Mar 14, 2018
- 17 min
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...
- Mar 13, 2018
- 5 min
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...
- Mar 13, 2018
- 2 min
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...
- Mar 10, 2018
- 5 min
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...
- Mar 7, 2018
- 3 min
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...