[Beginning this week, ‘Parapolitics’ will be a fortnightly column appearing on the second and fourth Thursday of every month.] We were never so helpless, never so bereft, never more in need of a platform of struggle. The need for a new political formation is acutely felt today as never before. And by a new … Continue reading The Need for a New Political Platform →
I The term ‘contemporary’ is often used synonymously with ‘the present’. It is often used to connote ‘newness’. But there is another sense where it refers to the idea of inhabiting the same time (as for example in the statement: ‘Gandhi was a contemporary of Tagore’) or of the industrial revolution being contemporaneous … Continue reading At the Edge of Postmodernity – Reflections on the Contemporary from the Global South →
Guest Post by SURAJ JACOB [Note: This article was written before the ongoing violence in Delhi began and is not about current affairs. It rather engages with the political problem at a broader philosophical level. – AN] Analysts of Delhi’s recent election note thatAAP imaginatively courted voters on the BJP’s own turf (Shekhar Gupta): welfarism … Continue reading Kejriwal and the ‘Dirty Hands Problem’ →
Guest Post by JAYA SHARMA This article that explores the enjoyment of violence, epsecially in the social media world, in the wake of the brutal violence perpetrated by the Yogi Adityanath regime in Uttar Pradesh. It should be read as a sequel to Jaya Sharma’s earlier article published in Kafila in June last year. ‘Maza … Continue reading The Yogi and the Erotics of Violence: Jaya Sharma →
Today we start a new series where we will take on a monumental task of covering the entire Bible. We will lecture on all the other topics we have been as well, this is just a new series projected to take the next few years, Lord willing. We will cover every chapter in the Orthodox Bible, aside from the few we have already done. Hopefully we can see that clearly this book is from God and not like any other religious text.
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I thought about making this my last article on climate for this or any other website except my own. I planned the action some time ago, but it was the recent headline in the...
The thing from which the world suffers just now more than any other evil is not the assertion of falsehood, but the endless repetition of half-truths. Chesterton made this statement many years ago but...
Everything on the planet is part of a cycle that operates on various scales and over various time periods. Perhaps the slowest and the least obvious is the Geologic Cycle (Figure1). Humans look at...
Everything on the planet is part of a cycle that operates on various scales and over various time periods. Perhaps the slowest and the least obvious is the Geologic Cycle (Figure1). Humans look at...
