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Deb’s Dos Passos Echo: Tracing India’s Descent
Book Review "Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy"  — John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand On, 1941 Siddhartha Deb's Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and The Fall of India, published by Haymarket Books in 2024, is an urgent, incisive exploration of India's socio-political transformation under…
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Elegy for Beauty: Memory and the Ecology of Presence
“Land art involves a relationship between art and nature that refuses to separate the two, asserting that art is as much a part of the land as the land itself is a part of art.”                             - Lucy Lippard in Landscript 7: Land and Environmental Art, 2007 Christian Bernard Singer's work is a poetic testament…
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Voltaire’s Bastards Strike Again: How the Tyranny of Rationalism Lost America’s Vote
“Democratic systems may hold elections, but those elections are largely  ceremonial, moments in which the public is invited to endorse decisions already  taken by small groups.” — John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards, p. 52. Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a seismic shift in American politics. Regardless of one's political alignment,…
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Palestine Lebanon Extermination Camps: Call to Arms
14 October 2024 The ongoing extermination of the Palestinian people and the bombing of Lebanon should not be blamed on Israel alone. It is America that has been waging wars across the world since they dropped the atomic bombs in Japan, and the present crimes against humanity and genocide are American crimes through the…
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Muslims Don’t Matter
BOOK REVIEW: "Muslims Don’t Matter: Sayeeda Warsi’s Candid Dissection of Britain’s Relationship with Islam", Bridge Street Press, London, 3 Oct 2024 Barely in the two decades since the infamous 9/11 marker, Muslims are right at the centre of the political discourse of assertive liberalism and more evident. Caught between the rampant Islamophobia in everyday…
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One Year After Gaza: Reckoning with a Genocide Ignored
“At the dawn of decolonization, Palestine was colonized. I recall my utter confusion at this irony of history.”                 — Eqbal Ahmad, 1994 One year after the relentless bombardment of Gaza that followed the horrific events of October 7th, as Hamas launched an attack,  we are compelled to confront an unsettling truth: Is this the…