culture
About Raj Thackeray and the rise of neo-politics of Hate.
Deep down, I may be having Maharashtrian roots. Still, one is saddened to read the daily pounding by Raj Thackeray against North Indians. How much time and propaganda it takes to transform a culture of humility and love into that of hate. We saw in the late 70′s, that is, at the peak of cold [...]
The Impossibility of a Dialogue
“We live through troubling times” said Bholu the ghoda, “The world as we know today as ours will disappear from the face of this planet. Today our little island formally known as Jambudwipa is surrounded by an ever growing understanding that pretends to know better than what we always knew to be good for us. They seek to change and transform us for our own good and for the sake of our own soul, for they worry too much about the terrible fates that await us and they think in their broad wisdom that the only way we can save our misguided selves is by letting them work over it. Today we have come to doubt the very word ‘Self’. So I would invite our esteemed friend and guide the Jackal to come over here and speak to us about matters relating to our Self and what possibilities open us to a state of dialogue with forces that seek to change it with the pretence of saving us from our-own-dark-and-lost-selves.” [...]
The forgetting of Gandhi’s Challenge to the project of Modernity
The forgetting of Gandhi’s Challenge to the project of Modernity Incomplete essay written in 2001 which exist only as fragments and quotes, notes all scattered on the page so please bear with me as I hope to complete it someday, also, this time I will use Vinay Bhals article to re[frame] and repost and in [...]
Dasarajna ‘Battle of the Ten Kings’ (a vedic fantasia)
(Year 2050) I was getting a bit worried, It was almost 9.30 and the train was nowhere in sight. What could have happened my thoughts wander, these ultramodern magnetic cushioned bullets, gushing at 340 kilometers per hour were supposed to solve the distance problem by phasing out the sky trams which due to technical limitations [...]
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