Pedagogical Violence and The Fetish of Examinations in Indian Education
In India, education has seldom been about learning. It has been about the examination. From the first moment a child enters the classroom, the rhythm of life is determined not…
Personal Values and Scepticism: The Double-Edged Sword in Green Shopping
A new research study has shed light on what drives people to embrace—or doubt—eco-friendly shopping in India, revealing that personal norms and consumer scepticism both play critical roles in shaping…
Why Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice has become a cultural phenomenon
In the light of Pride and Prejudice returning to theatres worldwide for celebrating 20 years, it is worth asking why this particular adaptation has secured near-religious devotion while so many…
Performance over Praxis in The Age of the Pseudo-Intellectual
Half knowledge is dangerous. It has always been so. Does the danger looks different in the digital age? Yes, it does. Where once intellectual posturing might have been confined to…
Love as Method: Queer Kinship and the Politics of Survival
In Western culture, the nuclear family is often presented as the most natural unit of human life. In reality, it is one of the most carefully engineered. The postwar state,…
Surveillance Capitalism and the Death of Our Minds
In the beginning, the internet was a library. Messy, vast, poorly indexed, but still a library. Today it has mutated into something closer to a casino. The shift has been…
Stone and Silence: How States Shape History Through Monuments
Every society tells stories about itself. Some are whispered in family homes, others are argued over in academic journals, but few are as visible, immovable, and state-sanctioned as the ones…
The Trap of the Good Old Days: The Politics and Peril of Nostalgia
The past has always been a seductive force, offering a sense of stability in times of uncertainty. But in recent years, nostalgia has emerged not merely as a personal sentiment…
To Be Seen is to Exist: Loneliness, Attention, and the Digital Gaze
To be watched is to be validated. To be liked is to be loved. To go viral is to be worthy. These have become the unspoken truths of the digital…
Softness as Subversion: A Feminist Reading of Gentleness in Times of Collapse
In an era defined by exhaustion, acceleration, and relentless demands for performance, gentleness often appears as a luxury, or worse, a weakness. It is dismissed as apolitical, sentimental, even indulgent.…