Articles by Manash Bhattacharjee

Hurt is the new categorical weapon against power. It has managed to divide the social, political and even aesthetic world into two camps: those who hurt and those who are hurt. The camps of hurt are social and political in nature and are fighting for new spaces. This article looks at the claims hurt is making on our political life and what a politics of hurt does to the idea of fraternity.

This article argues that there is something intrinsically fascist about “solutions”; a word that has turned out to be a dangerous gift from scientific imagination. Drawing on the history of Jews and Palestine as well as the Partition negotiations between Gandhi and Jinnah, it warns of the dangers of a “solution-minded” approach to the return of Pandits to Kashmir.

Aam Aadmi Party, in its attempt to subvert the process of government decision making,  is probably drawing from Rousseau’s social contract theory, where the idea of popular sovereignty, or the sovereignty of the people, gains authority over parliament.