THE AGE OF REASON

 Ours is a constitution of a before mental health era. Today, when we know so much about the nuances of mental health, Why the state cannot guarantee us Mental health as a fundamental right?  Okay, if you are provoked enough by my straightforward and probably naive assertion of a not so obvious proposition, let me dive deep into the correlations, problems and history of mental health as a fundamental right.  I got in touch with the issue of mental health back when I was doing my BSc. I got to know about Rohith Vemula. Okay, I know, it is again a provocative standpoint that I got to know about it from an incident of death by a systemic and societal problem. The problem of Rohith was so symptomatic of the deeply entrenched nexus of the Bourgeois Hindu consciousness and its regressive hate towards its own people. The political nature of the caste hatred and how the mental health aspect of these issues we often ignore and even if we accept the discussion, the discussions are ...

 And I am not talking about being a liberal or a socialist and for that matter having shades of left. I am talking about communism here. No bullshit, serious reconstruction of political institutions like State and other machineries and creating new improved versions of social institutions based on emancipatory values. It is wrong to say that left is on a decline now a days. The left never rose in this country properly. May be in the case of Bhagat Singh for a brief moment, a bit in MN Roy and in a naive way in Nehruvian policies, but not fully. Here, I outline what it means to be a leftist in India right now.  There are problems that an Indian leftist has to tackle which are multi-fold. There are some problems which I ascribe to the universal left ideology, that is, left everywhere, whereas there is a problem of Indian Left. The problem is in general, a problem of Modern Indian Political theory and Political thought. Let's deal with it one by one.  1. The Non-indigenous n...

 Recalling a Doha from Tulsidas's Ramcharitmaanas,                               "Harit bhoomi trin sankul, samujh parit nhi panth!                              Jin Paakhand baad te, Lupt Bhaye sab Granth!"                              ~ from Aranyakand The meaning of it is," In the rainy season, due to heavy rain, when grasses grow everywhere, it becomes difficult to find the right path. Similarly, When the false interpretations from Charlatans of religion rise, the true discourse gets lost."  We need to be very vigilant about our analysis of the issue not because it is a sensitive issue but because it is philosophically intricate and requires skills to get a clear philosophical picture of the issue. Let us go bit b...

 Ideology, as defined by famous Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek, is that "People in ideology very well know what they are doing is wrong and has not right consequences but still they proceed with it because the system in which they stand upon deems it right". The most often said quote, "They know very well what they are doing, still they do it!".  Allowed honesty is also such an ideology in Indian Bureaucracy. Honesty is an extremely personal ethical and moral virtue, and it should be a personal choice to choose what honesty means to a particular person. But the Bureaucratic system of India suffers from a fixed set of dressing of Civil services values a civil servant should have. It is the property of in general all working systems that wish to change the individual agency of the individual and to make the subject a mute replica of the system itself.  I will substantiate with the help of an example.  Suppose someone comes to you in dire needs and you are a civil ...

 also known as Jhoot-puraai in Bihari dialects,  governs all of our bourgeois social life. You ask for tea to someone even if you do not want to serve tea and you wish they say no and they say no because they know you do not want to serve tea and it is just an empty gesture. But the message is propagated. The message of being nice to each other. Fake niceness of course which helps to break the continuity of directly coming to business.  Directly coming to business somewhat sounds materialistic and hence to add a flavor of spiritual kindness, one behaves in this fake kindness. So, the question arises? Are these empty gestures that empty? The so called empty in the philosophical discourse is never a null discourse. It is filled with a message, often an ideological message. This message can vary according to its use. Why it is essential to understand Empty gestures?  Empty gesture is actually an accidental discovery of Human where it can safeguard its unwillingness to c...

 Long time back, I read Albert Einstein's Autobiographical accounts or views in his book, "The world as I see it!". It was a very revealing experience for me to learn about a Scientist's views about general matters of this world. A person so distinguished in his field, when he delves in the day to day matters of the world, there is a chance that his views might be entirely controversial and at times unacceptable to the present perceptions of the society. Nevertheless, his views still remain important for two reasons, namely, his views as a person living his life are crucial as everyone's views and second, the methods of analysis that he learnt over the years might as well help him to get a clearer picture of the world than an average lay person.  I intend to do the same this time. The only difference remains that I am no Albert Einstein, neither am I planning to be one. I am a master's student in an elite Indian institute of Research and in 3-4 months, I am se...

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 God is the representative of the only "non-transactional relationship" there is of man with oneself.  And since the truth remains the same, that there is no such thing as God, Man finds himself continuously in a market of relationships full of transactions happening now and then. Sometimes latent so that he may not find about it, sometimes in the garb of familial love, sometimes in the garb of friendship, but when this latency fades away and the truth is released, Man shocks himself every time thinking when did all his relations turn into transactions? The truth is there always were only transactional relationships mistaken as unconditional ones.  Escaping truth is not the route of a dharmic man. A Dharmic man confronts it. For once, when he finds that there is no God, he no longer fools himself into believing that. But, also, at the same time, a true Dharmic is one who understands the myth of worldly relationships to be good and attaching as false.  Then he turns i...

Philosophy in India, has highly been prejudiced in the favour of idealism and in its specific forms of Spirituality. Vedic Philosophy and it's high and mighty claims on the after life and hence before life, beyond the world, and hence of this world cemented, undoubtedly the Vedic philosophy as the representative of Indian Philosophy. Vedanta, in it's pinnacle eras, became representative of Spiritual ideas.  To throw oneself back in what went in the favour of idealist thinkers, we see a neutral point in History, which was neither materialistic nor idealistic in it's content. I claim, It was the rise of Gautam Buddha where Ideas were at par with Matter and from there starts a decline of materialism in India. Where perversion of thought process, a claim to spirituality became a disdain for materiality and hence, the whole conceptual underpinning of this world business. The answer to why India, in it's business,highly motivated by "that worldly" Affairs, if they e...