License: CC BY 4.0 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33802.34247 The video-collage is a scathing audiovisual critique of the existing political parties in India. It highlights the fact that all the national parties in India behave in the same manner when it comes to religion. For garnering votes (in other words, for enriching the vote-bank), the religious or communal cardContinue reading “Playing with the Same Card”
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CONVERGENCE TO PRAXIS
This journal tries to demolish the administrative boundaries of academic disciplinary technology by amalgamating all the so-called “subjects” by condemning the objectification, subjectification and subjection.
It strives to reach the vanishing point of theory and praxis. Thus, instead of so-called “inter-disciplinary studies”, it emphasizes on the convergence of earthian knowledges and praxiologies. The journal attempts to achieve this end by means of dialogue without manipulation in the context of a participatory, local-resource based, low-energy efficient, small-scale, self-reliant, partyless, moneyless, decentralized democracy. As this journal is against the academiocratic elitism and patron-client relationship, it maintains the Copyleft Writers’ Movement and follows the Creative Commons License.
VIOLENCE AND POLITICS: A DIALOGUE WITH SUJATA BHADRA
Posted on 10/09/2022 A dialogue between Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay and Sujata Bhadra on the questions of NOTA, Right to Recall, political violence, proportional representation, partyless democracy and several other issues within the Indian political area. This discussion in Bangla, as part of the Sunday Indian Show, Kolkata TV in 2009, mainly emphasizes on the doctrines ofContinue reading “VIOLENCE AND POLITICS: A DIALOGUE WITH SUJATA BHADRA”
Plutocracy Much? Tracing the contemporary crony capitalist regime in India: A CASE-STUDY OF THE DHFL SCAM
License: CC BY 4.0 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16825.24161 Akhar Bandyopadhyay Posted on 06/09/2022 i. Where does India stand today: the broader perspective The year’s 2022. The world as it stands today faces a plethora of conflicts, feuds and other such similar dissociating, disintegrating processes. On the one hand, the Russian aggression on Ukraine coupled with NATO’s determinedly neo-imperialistic roleContinue reading “Plutocracy Much? Tracing the contemporary crony capitalist regime in India: A CASE-STUDY OF THE DHFL SCAM”
Do you have faith in the Contemporary Indian Judiciary?
The article critiques India’s judiciary, highlighting favoritism towards the wealthy, nepotism, and political influence that marginalize underprivileged groups. Prominent figures, including ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi, have called the system “ramshackled,” citing inefficiencies and delays. Judicial appointments raise concerns, as seen in Justice U.U. Lalit’s ties to political clients before becoming CJI. Access to justice remains a challenge, with the judiciary often appearing out of reach for common citizens. Overall, the article argues that these issues have eroded public trust in the legal system.
CPIM NOW: THE DOUBLE STANDARDS OF THE “REDS”
Posted on 27/08/2022 Updated on 01/10/2022 Introduction There is a joke in the public sphere that there are as much as 206 (the number of bones in the human body) communist parties (jokes apart!) and their factions within the Indian nation-state. It is no wonder that the confusion looming over the uniformity in their ideologicalContinue reading “CPIM NOW: THE DOUBLE STANDARDS OF THE “REDS””
THE GRAND FUNERAL FEAST OF THE “HINDUS”: URGING FOR THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODES
Posted on 17th August, 2022 License: CC BY 4.0 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18943.69286 Abstract This paper-letter, rather a mock-letter to the President of India, aims to sarcastically subvert the ideological standpoint of the militant Hindutva mindset regarding the post-death rituals cum grand feast of the Hindus. The authors of this paper-letter have deployed deconstructive methodology and Brechtian theatricalContinue reading “THE GRAND FUNERAL FEAST OF THE “HINDUS”: URGING FOR THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODES”
রাকৃমির কুমারী পুজো, আমার বৈধ বৌ আর টাকা-মাটিঃ গভীরতর অসুখ এখন…
Posted on 12/08/2022 Updated on 17/10/2022 License: CC BY 4.0 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12354.04809/1 Abstract The paper is on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Mission’s celebration of virgin worship. This particular event is also linked with money-laundering. The ambivalent nature of Hindu high-caste Male is revealed here with reference to ‘kumari puja’, where the mission’s ascetics are worshiping aContinue reading “রাকৃমির কুমারী পুজো, আমার বৈধ বৌ আর টাকা-মাটিঃ গভীরতর অসুখ এখন…”
The End of Dialogue
Posted on 2nd August, 2022 Updated on 15th August, 2022 License: CC BY 4.0 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24789.50407 ABSTRACT India is in a situation where dialogue is silenced by the autocratic governmentality. In this video collage, three consecutive situations are projected to show that all the three different political parties are acting in the same way– halting theContinue reading “The End of Dialogue”
The imagiNATION of an irredentist Akhaṇḍa Hindustāna (अखण्ड हिन्दुस्तान)
Posted on 28th July, 2022 License: CC BY 4.0 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30238.82244 ABSTRACT This paper-letter aims to sarcastically subvert the ideological standpoint of the Sangh Parivar by revealing the inherent inconsistencies or uncontradictory contradictions in their efforts to consolidate a standardized, homogenized and pasteurized Hindu rashtra of India or Akhand Hindustan. In doing so, it explores theContinue reading “The imagiNATION of an irredentist Akhaṇḍa Hindustāna (अखण्ड हिन्दुस्तान)”
Dismantle the unholy nexus: pseudo-holy “men”, gangsters, business tycoons and the theocratic establishment
Posted on 1st June, 2022 Updated on 8th March, 2025 (GMT 16: 21 hrs) Remembering the film “Jana Aranya” (1976) by Satyajit Ray! The movie is about a tumultuous time, when unemployment is on the rise. The protagonist of the film, a student of history, goes through various dilemmas in trying to become an “order-supplier”.Continue reading “Dismantle the unholy nexus: pseudo-holy “men”, gangsters, business tycoons and the theocratic establishment”
