Category: Philosophy
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Already Given, Already Owed
We inherit far more than we create. True gratitude begins when we realise life was given before it was ever earned.
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The Quality of Regard
Gratitude is not just listing three good things before bed. It begins when we slow down enough to actually notice life before it slips back into the background.
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Cognitive Justice as AI Governance Principle
What if India’s Right to Information movement offered the real template for AI governance? The argument is bold: democracy in the age of AI means not just transparency, but the right to challenge hidden systems, question their categories, and protect knowledge that should never be reduced to data.
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The Myth of the Neutral Algorithm (and What Lies Behind It)
Algorithms do not just inherit bias from society; they are built on categories that decide in advance what counts as knowledge and what gets erased.
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Cognitive Justice: Question of Who Speaks for the Earth
What if the biggest thing development destroys is not land, but knowledge? This is a powerful meditation on cognitive justice, showing how forests, communities, and erased ways of knowing are bound together in the politics of extraction.
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Silent Valley: The Fight for What We Don’t Know
Silent Valley was proposed as a hydroelectric project in 1973, the campaign against it ran roughly a decade, and the forest’s significance was tied both to biodiversity and to indigenous knowledge systems.
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From Bishnoi to Chipko: The Philosophical Roots
What happens when protecting nature is not activism, but identity itself? From the Bishnoi sacrifice to Chipko’s women hugging trees, this is a powerful clash between ecology, ethics, feminism, and the politics of survival.
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Other Ways of Knowing the World
What if the biggest flaw in AI is not just its carbon footprint, but the worldview beneath it? Indigenous ways of knowing treat land, rivers, plants, and memory as relationships, while AI turns them into data to be extracted, stored, and sold.
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Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and the Dialectic of Belonging
Deep ecology asks us to value nature beyond human use, but ecofeminism pushes the question further: who has already paid the price for that human-centred world?