Dr Saulat Nagi

“People are unaware how unfree they are, even where they feel most at liberty, because the rule of such un-freedom has been abstracted from them.” — Adorno. In the history of humankind, the Nuremberg trail was considered a watershed. Once the spectre of Nazi Germany was interred, a breeze of optimism reawakened a sanguine expectation […]

The Paris massacre happens to be a multidimensional phenomenon. France, a land of revolution, is also notorious for exploiting its colonies mercilessly. Even now 14 African countries are paying tribute worth $ 500 billion to France as ransom money to keep their (sham) independence intact. In the 1960s, approximately one million Algerians were massacred by […]

What happened in Paris was horrible and must be condemned. But what happened to Allenda, Lumumba, Guevara, Tania, Rosa, Eugene Levine and thousands of those who were brutally slaughtered by a not-so-hidden force, which in its condemnation stands at the forefront, was equally repulsive and reprehensible. From Bengal’s famine to the Algerian massacre, from My […]

For all the wrong and tragic reasons, France is in the limelight yet again. In Paris, an impulsive fit of paranoia, an outrageous act of violence, consumed more than 100 innocent lives in just a few chilling moments. Bullets were fired, blood spilled, death roared and the bodies fell. Regardless of colour, caste, creed and […]

For the media it is merchandise, a source of fame, earning and leading from the front. This is the depiction of the extent of alienation in a sick society, afflicted with the plague of capitalism that perpetrates violence of all shades on human beings. It is where the inanimate market, not living human beings react […]

During the recent recession that hit capitalism on its Achilles heel, people are left stranded to face the atrocious, real and barbaric attributes of ‘rationalisation’. As they faced the state biding farewell to welfare, in horror they found the same organ providing absolute freedom to banks and monetary institutions to fleece the people and even […]

“If anxiety is more than a general malaise, if it is an existential condition, then this so-called ‘age of anxiety’ is distinguished by the extent to which anxiety has disappeared from expression” (Herbert Marcuse). For psychologists the moment of birth proves the moment of an apocalypse, of the biggest trauma for the infant. From that […]

In Germany, the irrational ideas of blood, folk, race, soil and Reich were instituted, replacing those based on class and capital-labour relationships, the latter an actual rationality that negates all other fictitious relationships and forms the basis of class struggle against the expropriator having the same blood and identical race, sharing the same soil. Nature […]

The Nazis not only replaced the Christian faith with Paganism but annihilated the values of Christian institutions as well, which called for equality, brotherhood and social justice. And for good reason since the prevalent?organisation of capital?found?no exchange value in this civilisation, hence it had to be interred. The advantage of this makeshift arrangement of replacing […]

In Pakistan, centuries have happened in decades. The process of retrogression has slumped into the abyss of history with the speed of a photon. In the last few decades, a state with the reasonable potential of attaining a high trajectory leap through a chequered course, has dwindled to the lowest ebb, now sliding into an […]