Category Archives: politics

What is religion?

Posted on February 24, 2018 by

Here’s something worth pondering: Perhaps religion is not really a cultural universal. There’s a good case to be made that “religion” as we understand it today is a category that arose out of European Christianity, specifically Protestantism, and that what … Continue reading →

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On Class Reductionism

Posted on January 28, 2017 by

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was one of the greatest Indian intellectuals of the 20th Century. He was social and political reformer and played a crucial role in drafting independent India’s constitution. Born in 1891 to a Dalit (outcaste / untouchable) family, … Continue reading →

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Famines and Free Markets

Posted on October 19, 2016 by

From 1876 to 1902, anywhere between 12 and 30 million Indians died in a series of famines. Although these deaths are often seen as effects of natural causes, nothing could be further from the truth. They were the result of … Continue reading →

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