Category: Op-Eds
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Gandhi’s “Experiments” with Western Civilization
29 November, 2020 “Who truly was Mahatma Gandhi before he spearheaded the Indian independence movement?” The answer to this quintessential question unquestionably lies predominantly in the seminal text ‘Hind Swaraj’ – a…
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Beyond the Mahatma’s Hermeneutical take on Abrahamic religious imports to the Sub-continent
At the turn of the 20th Century, whilst the movement for Swaraj ensued to emancipate the Indian sub-continent from the tyranny inflicted by British Imperialism, the war had to be fought on multiple…
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The ‘Standards of Living’ in Mughal India: Worlds Apart
If it was the prevalence of the notion that the Indian sub-continent was a land laden with knowledge, riches and economic opportunity – the metaphorical ‘Golden Bird’, it was this very…
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The Indian Tryst with Destiny … And Licenses
Examining the ramifications of the ‘License-Permit-Quota Raj’ on the Indian Economy On the eve of 15 August 1947, as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the nation with the historical ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech…
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The Lord of the Flies: A Platonist Critique of Democracy and an Analytical Understanding of Machiavellian Politics
Nobel laureate William Goulding’s 1954 novella – ‘The Lord of the Flies’ revolves around a group of pre-adolescents survivors of a plane crash and are stranded on an uninhabited island.…
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The Dawn of Juristocracy?
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what us – the Judges, say it is.” – Justice Charles E. Hughes November 21, 2018 Over a hundred years have…
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Social Boycott: Legal Implications and Analysis
November 28, 2016 In his tome – ‘The Social Contract’, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously said, “Man is born free but, always in chains.” John Locke and other natural law theorists believe man…
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McDonaldisation of Society
September 27, 2016 George Ritzer has written about the “McDonaldization of Society”. What do you understand by this, and is it a good way of describing many features of the…
Bhrigu A. Pamidighantam 