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Om Prakash Dwivedi

is a literary critic and columnist.

6 articles published

Language as a Dictionary of Humanity

Because language matters. Because it is in and through language that the world is shaped. Also, because language is in itself a theory of beginnings, new ways of seeing and owning this world. As Karen Lord rightly asserts in her groundbreaking book, The Best of All Possible Worlds, “When you’ve been almost exterminated, language is…

ByOm Prakash DwivediSeptember 13, 20250Comments

‘Regimes of Authoritarianism’ and the Need for Organic Intellectuals

What is the role of intellectual leadership in our troubled times? At a time when universities are converted into stock exchanges, singularly focusing on “return on interest” (ROI), and scholars – a chunk of them, at least – investing their ideologies and praxis keeping in mind their own personal extravaganza and leadership positions, while few…

ByOm Prakash DwivediApril 21, 20250Comments

Why the Neoliberal Universities Debunk Critical Thinking

The febrile mood of several neoliberal universities seems to have triggered the death of critical thinking across the globe. While pedagogical inventiveness remains the declared norm of such universities, the learning outcomes are invariably linked to return on interest and customer experience. That said, these neoliberal universities are prettified by posturing the students at the…

ByOm Prakash DwivediApril 12, 20250Comments

The Modus Operandi of Brutalism: Anti-Empathy of Musk and the Financialization of Nations

In economic parlance, Elon Musk emerges as a private limited government libertarian, who invariably recommends a reduction in government spending, hiking the H-1B visa fee and suggesting an annual fee to it so that hiring foreign workers becomes more complex and taxing, while also repealing such regulations that hinders the growth and expansion of his…

ByOm Prakash DwivediMarch 29, 20250Comments

Globalism and Entrepreneurs: The Incubators for Brutalism

The year 2024 was termed a “global election super cycle,” as over 70 countries held general or national elections. While the outcomes varied, what emerged as the defining feature of the elections was an accentuated form of demagoguery and corporatism. Efficiency, productivity, optimization, trade wars, and climate denialism – all for the sake of a select…

ByOm Prakash DwivediMarch 18, 20250Comments

Brutalism: The Next Liberal Order of the 21st Century

At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama pronounced, ‘what we may be witnessing [is] the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government’? What was predicted as the acme of civilizational development has instead turned into a perennial catastrophe for humanity,…

ByOm Prakash DwivediMarch 11, 20250Comments