Non-Fiction
How to be a Parasite
Study English and Migrate/Migrate and Study English A parasite is by its very nature a wanderer, an alien, a migrant – a creature who does..
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Non-Fiction
THE POWER OF P’s: Philosophy, Puberty, and Pumice
I GREW UP IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA IN THE EARLY 1950’s, when television was in its infancy (only three channels). We had a twelve inch..
Philosophy
Speakers' Corner
When a government curbs the freedom of expression, speech and assembly so that it almost non-existent, this is usually interpreted as a fear of upheaval….
Philosophy
The Panopticons that Surround Us
Sabah Carrim explores Michel Foucault’s idea of panopticons
Philosophy
Writers & “Truth Regimes”
Cheriyan Alexander writes about intolerant regimes that hound writers/artists from time to time and on the role of scriptures in the history of religious intolerance.
Philosophy
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Pseudo-Science or Pseudo-Myth?
In this article Dr Peter Tyler reviews how psychology takes its understanding from its conception of psyche, especially in the relationship between mind and body. Drawing on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951), he argues that it is more fruitful to see psychology as a means of ‘seeing the foundation of possible buildings’ rather than appealing to the pseudo-objectivity of science.
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Lakshmi Gopal studies Ambedkar’s legacy in the light of The Annihilation of Caste
Literature
Writers & “Truth Regimes”
Cheriyan Alexander writes about intolerant regimes that hound writers/artists from time to time and on the role of scriptures in the history of religious intolerance.
Philosophy
The Future of Philosophy – II
In the final of a two-part series, Lakshmi Gopal gives us a view of the future of philosophy through her experience of the World Congress of Philosophy 2013, held in Athens.
Philosophy
The Future of Philosophy – I
In the first of a two-part series, Lakshmi Gopal gives us a view of the future of philosophy through her experience of the World Congress of Philosophy 2013, held in Athens.
Philosophy
A Landscape without Windows
Sushma Murthy studies the representation of feminism in language and translations, through the works of Nicole Brossard
Philosophy
Philosophy and the Persecution of Equality
Lakshmi Gopal throws light on the persecution philosophers throughout time have undergone over the ideas of equality that they propounded.