Deepa Majumdar

2025-04, Forum

Understanding this Dire Historical Moment – an Essay

Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to explain this extraordinary historical moment – through the crises that constitute the malaise of modernity and the root cause of this malaise – modernity’s flight from the ascetic norms. But although worthy, this historical method cannot explain why history appears to be hastening. To explain this, we […]

2022-04, Thematic Section

Puppeteer Putin

Abstract: In this essay, the author regards the individual as the chief courier of History, and Mr. Putin, the immediate cause of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – distinguishing his agency from broad precipitating socio-historical causes that deny inwardness, individuality, and free-will. A dark puppeteer, Mr. Putin is more sinister than Plato’s puppeteers (Allegory of the

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