Category: Philosophy

  • Manchester Then, Mumbai and San Francisco Now

    Friedrich Engels didn’t just theorize about economic systems- he walked their streets with a notebook, mapping contradictions block by block. His 1842-1844 Manchester investigation was methodical: he traced the Irk and Medlock rivers through working-class districts, documented specific addresses, and interviewed factory workers in their homes. He discovered that main commercial streets created “hypocritical concealment”—the…

  • Art Beyond the Family Fantasy

    Contemporary art and cinema offer powerful lenses for understanding Engels’ insights about how economic arrangements disguise themselves as cultural values. The contrast between mainstream Hindi cinema’s family fantasies and materialist filmmaking reveals precisely this ideological operation at work.

  • The Economics of Intimacy

    We are living through what many call a “crisis of the family”, delayed marriage, declining birth rates and housing unaffordability preventing traditional family formation. Rather than cultural decay, Engels’ insight that family structures are economically determined, not natural, better explains these shifts than most contemporary morality driven analysis.

  • The Political Implications of Artistic Absence

    Once you start seeing how absence works in art, you can’t unsee how it works in media and politics. Both operate through similar mechanisms of presence and absence, visibility and invisibility.

  • What Art Teaches Us About Seeing the Invisible

    Once you understand how absence creates meaning in philosophy and history, you start noticing it everywhere. Especially art can offer interesting lessons. Artists have long known that what you leave out can be more powerful than what you put in. Learning to “read absence” in art might be the key to understanding how it operates…

  • The Science of Absence

    If you want to understand how powerful suppression can be, look no further than ancient India, where an entire philosophical school was so effectively erased that it survives today only in the arguments of those who opposed it. This is what happens when censorship succeeds completely, and why it often backfires spectacularly.

  • Three Traditions, One Truth About Nothingness

    Let’s take the modern debates about censorship and media suppression to what the ancient Indian philosophers developed as sophisticated tools for understanding how absence operates as a creative force in human consciousness. These weren’t abstract theories but practical frameworks for analyzing how what’s missing shapes what we think is real.

  • Practical Philosophy: Your Role in the Innovation 🌈🚀

    Inclusive language and design shape a society that values all human abilities. Real inclusion means creating environments and systems that support diverse needs while celebrating talents. Moving beyond inspiration to practical support and universal design maximizes potential. True innovation thrives when everyone is valued and accommodated from the start.

  • Power, Voice, and New Ways of Organizing Society

    Disability rights shifted from charity to empowerment with key laws and activism. Disabled Indians challenge norms by creating new ways to live and work. Intersectional barriers fuel innovative problem-solving. True inclusion requires accessible education, workplaces, and public spaces designed for all, unlocking dignity, equality, and fresh creative potential.

  • Living Creativity: Different Bodies and New Possibilities     

    Human innovation shines through real skills and adaptability, not supernatural powers. People with disabilities achieve success by using their talents alongside necessary support like accessible tools and environments. True progress comes from recognizing both their capabilities and the importance of accommodations, moving beyond stereotypes and outdated models toward equality and practical inclusion.