Issue 19

Lack of Voice in our Voting | Divanshu Sethi

2018 will see many crucial legislative assembly elections in India and the results of them, to some extent, will foreshadow the outcome...

The Peace for our Time & The Art of the Deal | Swagat Baruah

“Anybody can wage a war, only the courageous can make peace” ...

The Rage of the Incels | Jia Tolentino

This week’s Sunday Reading comes from Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker piece, ‘The Rage of the Incels’, in which she argues that being an...

A Case of the Deadlock of Political Correctness | Slavoj Žižek

On a US campus, an incident took place recently: a group of young Latino workers were restoring the façade of a house on a plateau that...

Clinical Encounters with the Entrepreneurial Self | Katie Jenness

As a psychologist working in a college counseling center, I encounter many talented, industrious, and high-achieving undergraduates. But...

Limelight | Johanna Thoma: The main point of philosophy is to get people to think better – In

Johanna Thoma is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics....

Review: Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Tranquility Base: Hotel and Casino’ | Tejas Rao

When Arctic Monkeys dropped AM, in 2013, they had long departed from the Indie scene – because that’s what Arctic Monkeys could be...

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...

Noam Chomsky: The danger of the #MeToo movement is confusing allegation with demonstrated action

I think it grows out of a real and serious and deep problem of social pathology. It has exposed it and brought it to attention, brought...

Film of the Week | Unsane

This week’s film is Steven Soderbergh’s 2018 experimental psychological horror thriller ‘Unsane’ starring Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard and...

Review: Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ | Divanshu Sethi

Rarely do we we get to see such visual representation of reality from the mainstream medium of music as in the recent single released by...

Limelight | Prateek Kuhad: “The role of the artist is to move people” – In Convers

Prateek Kuhad is a Delhi based singer-songwriter. After releasing his single ‘Raat Raazi’ in early 2013 to wide appreciation, Prateek has...

Why a ‘Cosmopolitan Constitution’? Kantian Perspectives|Claudio Corradetti

Kant’s views on peace, cosmopolitanism and the unity of international law have been often considered as an inspiration for liberal...

Good enough to vote, not enough for Aadhaar | Puja Awasthi

“If my fingers are good to vote, why are they not enough for an Aadhaar card?” asks Parwati Devi, 51, holding up her Electors Photo...