Why subalterns, even 90% of elites (conservative estimate) cannot read it.

'Mr. Aiyar spoke within the gated community. Mr. Yadav spoke to those without gates and homes.'

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Come and teach at NLS! nls.ac.in/news-events/in…

Mohammad Rasoulof, director of the Golden Bear winning anti-death penalty film 'There Is No Evil', flees Iran fearing imprisonment & worse. His latest film 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' will premiere at Cannes this year. The film is banned in Iran for showing women without hijab.

Happy Mother's Day.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony turns 200. The best compliment this masterwork got was from Mikhail Bakunin, the anarchist who wanted to overthrow all in the existing order: 'Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.'

Whether an election or a boxing match, don't hand anyone the victory until they have actually won. As Mike Tyson eloquently said, everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face.

'Precisely because nationalism and the nation are so secure, the focus has silently but surely shifted to the citizen.'

The new multidisciplinary Research Training Programme (RTP), a new paid certificate course, at the CSSSC. Offline. For more information click here: cssscal.org/academic_progr… Please share with interested students.

The state has taken a backseat and handed over decision making capacity to social groups. With a Schmittian reading, we need to seriously question the claims of BJP in making a strong state when they are delegating the ultimate prerogative of the sovereign to society.

'Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?'
-Walt Whitman

Happening today.

Do people find it odd that people who use 'fascism' to describe the arrests of hundreds of dissidents in US will categorically refrain from using it to describe the executions - yes, executions - of hundreds of dissidents in Iran?

This article asks a pertinent question 'Decolonization from when, what and from where?'

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Some of the radical student leaders of the 60s in France later became post-structuralists who wrote incomprehensible stuff which made theory poorer but did little for the poor. As Confucius said, you either die a hero or live long enough to become Gilles Deleuze.

Happening soon - public lecture at NLS Bangalore - today at 5pm :)

Looks mighty interesting!

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Looking forward to hosting Sahana Ghosh Sahana Ghosh at the NLS on Monday at 6pm. We will talk about her recent book A Thousand Tiny Cuts (YodaPress, 2024). nls.ac.in/news-events/th…

Cinema and Tamil Politics #Publication 📢
What are among others, fans of Vijay Kamal Haasan Rajinikanth etc tweeting about? Our latest article in The Hindu today has some interesting findings. A thread for your consideration ⬇️

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