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The Question of the ‘Brahmin’ and the ‘Dalit’


“As Fanon put it half a century ago: ‘I am not a potentiality of something; I am fully what I … More

Anshul Kumar, Brahmins, Caste System in India, Casteism, Dalits, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, JNU, Love, Poem, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, WEB Dubois

Problems of Identity


“If you could understand the difficulty of being a Hindu in Pakistan and a Muslim in India, and the causes … More

Identity, Quotations, Quotes

Why I Voted for NOTA


I have gone and voted for NOTA (None of the Above). Why, you may ask. I am guided by political … More

2024 Elections, I Voted for NOTA, India Elections 2024, None of the Above, NOTA, Voting in 2024

A Re-examination of the Caste System in India


Introduction A friend insisted that I write about the Caste System in India so that others in society can be … More

Aryans and the Caste System, Caste, Caste System in India, Gita on Caste, Introduction to the Caste System, Jati, Origins of the Caste System, Purusha Sukta, Svadharma, Varna, Vedas on Caste

Far right, misogynist, humourless? Why Nietzsche is misunderstood


from The Guardian: Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin are the great triumvirate of 19th-century thinkers whose ideas still … More

Misunderstanding Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophy of Nietzsche

THE GAZA STRIP HAS BEEN DESTROYED. SO HAS HOPE FOR A FAIR FUTURE FOR THE TWO PEOPLES.


by Amira Hass As a Jewish leftist born in Israel, I feel a profound sense of grief and defeat. Wars … More

Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Jews, Palestinians

Indian Philosophy Network (IPN)


Indian Philosophy Network (IPN) – https://www.indianphilosophynetwork.org – is a network for professional philosophers in India, both within and outside academia. … More

Advaita, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Indian Philosophy Network, Philosophy, Vedanta

Liberal Socialism Now


Very few of us expected liberalism to have such a rocky 21st century. At the turn of the 20th, liberal ideology and … More

Capitalism, Communism, Liberal Socialism, Liberalism, Marxism, Socialism

“Why I Left Harvard”–Carole Hooven


Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and … More

Cancel Culture, DEI, Diversity, Equity, Free speech, Harvard, Inclusion

Who Does the Land Belong To: Israelis or Palestinians?


Israel, Plaestine, Zionism

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