Category: Philosophy

  • Epistemology of the Street

    “Hum kya chahte?” is more than a slogan; it is a collective way of discovering what freedom means together. The real challenge is whether a shared cry for azaadi can hold differences, without turning solidarity into another form of exclusion.

  • Three Traditions, Three Partial Answers

    How does political desire become collective without turning coercive? Through Marx, feminist consciousness-raising, and Ambedkarite thought, liberation appears less like private wanting and more like a shared reordering of how people learn to want.

  • One Desire, Whose Voice?

    Can desire ever belong to a group without becoming coercion in disguise? Between liberal individualism and political solidarity lies the hardest question of freedom: how to want together without erasing difference.

  • The Mirror That Watches Back

    The market doesn’t just sell products, it sorts whose desires count as “authentic” and whose are engineered into endless aspiration. From women’s “empowerment” shopping to caste-class respectability and disabled “normalcy,” desire is managed, unless it’s cultivated on your own terms.

  • Watched Into Wanting

    Surveillance capitalism doesn’t just track desire, it turns your wanting into a resource, then sells predictions (and nudges) back into your future choices. The feed feels “so you” because it’s built from you, redrawing what even shows up as worth wanting.

  • A Ready Made Desire

    Modern capitalism didn’t tame desire; it learned to produce it, because suppressed longing buys nothing. From advertising to the feed, real human incompleteness is converted into endless upgrades, identities, and consumption.

  • The Violence Beneath Civilisation’s Reasoning

    From Aristotle to Freud, philosophy casts female desire as a problem to control. Audre Lorde and B. R. Ambedkar show instead how regulating women’s and caste-crossing desire sustains power—making the act of naming desire itself a form of resistance.

  • From Plato to the Enlightenment: Philosophy’s War on Wanting

    From Symposium to Immanuel Kant, Western philosophy casts desire as a threat to reason and freedom. Across Plato, Aristotle, Christian theology, and Stoicism, civilization advances by disciplining or suppressing desire, while leaving unanswered whose desires are controlled and why.

  • Myth, Tragedy and the Architecture of Desire  

    Greek myth and tragedy treat desire as civilization’s driving force—yet only some desires count. From Hesiod to Sophocles and Euripides, male desire becomes sovereignty, while female desire is cast as excess or threat.

  • Purposes We Choose, Together

    Resistance can’t stop at “don’t sort me” because people still need meaning, structure, and a shared sense of what matters.