Dr Saulat Nagi

A half-hearted botched-up coup and its repercussions in the aftermath bring Turkey in the limelight yet again. As if Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself was not enough, his opponents in the army have shoved Turkey into the abyss of a totalitarian state, if it wasn’t there already. It’s no secret that a capitalistic democracy is not […]

History corrects the judgment too late. The correction does not help the victim and does not absolve their executioner —Herbert Marcuse   The ever-intensifying trauma, a class crisis, continues to inflict the British ruling elite. The Brexit, the brazen attack of Blairites to restore their hegemony on Labour [party], and now the once-mystified charismatic Blair finding […]

The same holds true for ISIS, an outcome of US intervention in Middle East, if not an outright, well calculated product of imperialist forces. The US claims to fight against this ragtag, embattled organisation. Turkey, a lackey of the US, is supporting it. To destroy Syria (as if anything is left of it), the Saudis […]

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organisations. It is the rhythm of total destruction — Adorno In the US, the coldblooded massacre, a gory crime against humanity, carried out by a deranged sadist has led to both fury and frenzy. It was this media frenzy that helped the knee-jerk reaction to be […]

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us. — Theodor Adorno “A Free man” says Spinoza “thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is mediation on life and not on death.” Muhammad Ali, the legend who recently bade farewell to this world […]

The clock is ticking. One finds the shadow of Hemingway lurking with a query: “For whom the bell tolls?” The victim most likely seems to be Iran and, akin to previous afflictions, the perpetrators will yet again be the same: the US and its protégé (the Zionist state of Israel). Zionism is incognito Jewish nationalism, […]

“One needs either a lot of strength or a lot of stupidity not to lose heart.” — Adorno  Another tempest of Calibanism is threatening to inundate the shores of beleaguered sanity — or whatever this species can be named after — in Pakistan. Every time when the status quo is slightly threatened, the reactionary hyenas […]

“It seems more likely that far more people in our time experience neither the presence of God, nor the presence of his absence, but the absence of his presence… The tremendous social realities of our time are ghosts, spectres of murdered gods and our own humanity has returned to haunt and destroy us. We are […]

Falling sick can be a matter of chance, not of choice. The possibility of light afflictions even when they are succeeded by the “eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison” is quite scary for human beings. In the selection of afflictions and enemies fortune does not favour the human but that does not mean they […]

The very idea of being exploited for a very few brings back the subversive force hidden in the memories of an interred past. Prior to the arrival of a primal father (modern society), the past — primitive human history — was not only beautiful but equally merciful as well. The human was free both instinctually […]