The Aura of the Selfie: How Fascism Learns to Scroll, Gen Z and the Trap of Contentification of Politics
The Aura of the Selfie: How Fascism Learns to Scroll, Gen Z and the Trap of Contentification of Politics Generation Z, running in the endless race to consume content, does not realize that in chasing “relatable” content, it also absorbs fascist content along with it simply because that content has learned to wear the same…
The Body Left Outside: Disability, Caste, and the Absence of a Universal Ethic in India
This article is dedicated to this person who is I guess suffering from cerebral palsy, as far as I can tell. This person has come to the Gen Z protests happening right now in Delhi, India just near the Parliament of India in the National Capital of India. This person is repeatedly saying that he…
On Misreading of Ambedkar’s Speech on Grammar of Anarchy
On Constitutional Methods and Their Limits Ambedkar’s warning to the Constituent Assembly is often quoted as a blanket condemnation of civil disobedience, satyagraha, and mass resistance. He said: “But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner…
The Merchants of Hope: Messianism and the South Asian Political Psyche in light of Sonam Wangchuk
The Merchants of Hope: Messianism and the South Asian Political Psyche in light of Sonam Wangchuk Across South Asia, political life keeps returning to the same shape: a single, charismatic figure rises above a broken system and is entrusted not just with governing, but with saving. Institutions are treated as obstacles or irrelevancies; the man…
On the Eve of 20th July 2026, March to Parliament organised by the Cockroach Janta Party
A movement that invokes “the people” or “democracy” doesn’t need to justify itself philosophically. It just needs numbers and momentum. On this view, the multitude is moved by opinion rather than knowledge, and mass democratic politics tends toward leveling: flattening distinctions of excellence, judgment, and genuine statesmanship into an undifferentiated appeal to popular sentiment. Large…
Nolan’s Odysseus Played by Matt Damon is Pale and Stolid: Homer’s Odysseus is Stoic
There is a temptation, in adapting myth to screen, to mistake silence for depth. A furrowed brow, a level voice, a face that refuses to break — these have become shorthand for gravitas. But stillness is not the same as strength, and this is precisely where the difference between stoic and stolid becomes not a…
On Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
A cinematic adaptation of Homer is not merely a technical exercise in costume, cinematography, and casting; it is an act of translation between two radically different economies of meaning—the oral, communal, mnemonic world of ancient epic and the visual, individualized, commercial world of the modern blockbuster. When that translation fails, what remains on screen is…
जब राज्य पीड़ा का निर्माता बन जाए: मनमानी सार्वजनिक नीतियों की क़ीमत तय की जाए
एक आधुनिक संवैधानिक लोकतंत्र का मूल्यांकन केवल उसके द्वारा बनाए गए कानूनों से नहीं, बल्कि उन कानूनों के मानवीय परिणामों से किया जाना चाहिए। प्रत्येक प्रशासनिक परिपत्र, पात्रता मानदंड, आरक्षण नीति, लाइसेंस संबंधी नियम, परीक्षा नियम या नौकरशाही प्रक्रिया किसी व्यक्ति के जीवन की दिशा बदलने की क्षमता रखती है। किंतु जब ये नीतियाँ मनमानी,…
When the State becomes the author of agony: Why Arbitrary Public Policies must carry a Cost!
A modern constitutional democracy is not merely judged by the laws it enacts, but by the human consequences those laws produce. Every administrative circular, eligibility criterion, reservation policy, licensing requirement, examination rule, or bureaucratic procedure has the power to alter the trajectory of an individual’s life. Yet when these policies are arbitrary, irrational, insensitive, or…
I am Anshul Kumar, The first and the Last Prophet
Every oppressed people eventually produce figures who refuse to speak the language of their rulers. History remembers them under many names—heretic, dissident, revolutionary, iconoclast, or prophet. Such figures emerge not because societies willingly create them, but because every established order eventually produces truths that it cannot bear to hear. They are born at the point…
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