Ideology

Articles on power-centric attitudes of political parties, political psychology, analysis on elections, and political philosophies are part of this sub-category: Ideology.

Indignation, resentment, and reactionary politics

Indignation, resentment, and reactionary politics

BySaai Sasidhar Patri

Democracies are like sand-castles, and they crumble down when they face a reactionary tide, emotions such as indignation and resentment take the reactionaries away from the present to a time-frame where the framework of morality itself changes, thereby providing them the scope to justify any radical action. It is important to engage with reactionary ideas for their loathe for the present, if went un-noticed and unengaged, might turn into a political storm.

women's movements

Women’s movement in India: Challenges and prospects

BySubhranil and Sreemoyee

[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Male” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The history of the Women’s Movement is replete with radical advances and pragmatic withdrawals. Feminism is an intellectual tradition and a social movement at the same time. Since a new tradition takes time to garner legitimacy from the intellectual establishment, it often becomes imperative for…

Totalitarian state politics

Friends, enemies, and populist politicians

BySaai Sasidhar Patri

The 20th-century politics majorly revolved around one question: How do we organize modern states? The same question in the 21st century poses a dilemma with regards to the democracies. Towards the end of the last century, liberal democracy triumphed over Fascism and Communism. The rise of populist leaders today marks a dangerous advent towards which…

Islamophobia in India– The elaborate blame game

Islamophobia in India– The elaborate blame game

BySandeep Bhardwaj

[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Read out this Theel for me”] The most prevalent phobia in the twenty-first century is Islamophobia. From the liberal societies of Europe and the United States of America to India, it persists everywhere. The onus of fighting it has been shared to a great extent by the people or society of…

India’s COVID communication of stigma and blame

India’s COVID communication of stigma and blame

ByZenia Taluja

Anmol Mongia is a research scholar who has recently completed her MPhil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her interests include the study of religion and ethics, the philosophy of sports, and childhood studies. Even though COVID-19 is a novel virus, the experience of a viral pandemic is not. Despite a…

indian secularism

Has the Indian secularism lost its face already?

ByAniba Junaid

The need for literate-ness regarding secularism, and in particular to understand its Indian version, has become urgent since the arrival of the Hindutva-politics and its claim to be the safeguard of secularism in India, dubbing its alternatives as “pseudo-secularism”. The Modi regime is electorally well established, but its roots shake when its grasp on secular…

history

Political narratives cannot tamper with Indian history

ByAparajita Morde

The budget for the year 2020-2021 unveiled new projects for the development of a museum at Dholavira. It also unveiled new plans at other archaeological sites at Rakhigarhi, Shivsagar, Hastinapur, Adichallanur. These decisions created euphoria in an already enlightened crowd, who have suddenly taken a lot of interest in Indian history and culture. Since the…

indian nationalism

How Indian nationalism today is simply about identifying anti-nationals

BySulthana Shams

(This article won the best prize in the Republic Day OpEd contest organized by The ArmChair Journal) There is an emotion kept guarded all the time, which is at once more powerful than we can imagine. Wielded perfectly, it has the power to rise and reshape the world and its lives. George Orwell describes it…