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The Limits of Indian Secularism

The Limits of Indian Secularism

May 17, 2017 at 8:50 am 1 comment

A Sickness that Got into Secularism In recent times, a peculiar word has crept into the vocabulary of social network users in India as well as those of the Indian diaspora. The word in question is ‘sickular’ – an amalgamation of the English words ‘sick’ and ‘secular’. It is usedRead More

Some cultural contradictions of liberalism

Some cultural contradictions of liberalism

December 29, 2014 at 12:59 pm 1 comment

‘Liberalism’ is not a term that admits of straightforward definition. To quote Nietzsche, ‘only something which has no history can be defined’ (On the Genealogy of Morality II.13), and liberalism has a complex and to some degree incoherent history. The liberalism of John Stuart Mill, for instance, is differently contouredRead More