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The Piramal Pratijñābhaṅga: The Itching Palm of “Conscious Capitalism”?!

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  The Piramal Pratijñābhaṅga: The Itching Palm of “Conscious Capitalism”?! An Open Letter to Mr. Ajay Gopikisan Piramal ( Yes, Again! ) Posted on 20th August, 2026 (GMT 08:57 hrs) ABSTRACT This open letter to Ajay Piramal is a satirical indictment of Piramal as an agential structure of corporate power , wielding pratijñābhaṅga , dharma , and satyāgraha to expose the contradictions of “conscious capitalism,” the DHFL “resolution” (?), depositor dispossession, and the collusive architecture linking capital, State apparatus, and institutional power. Piramal is neither an isolated individual nor an aberration, but a particularly revealing node in India’s dynastic neo-capitalist order —the same oligarchic formation embodied, in their own equally consequential ways, by Adani and Ambani, the notorious twins of India’s corporate duopoly . DISCLAIMER: This letter addresses “Mr. Ajay Piramal” principally as a structure of corporate and financial power, not as a private individual divorced ...
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মঁসিয়ে ফুকোর খ্যামতার কলাপ আর আজকের প্রলাপ

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  মঁসিয়ে ফুকোর খ্যামতার কলাপ আর আজকের প্রলাপ Posted on 19th August, 2026 (GMT 02:55 hrs) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36468.72325 License: CC BY 4.0 ‘নব পর্যায় জিজ্ঞাসা’-য় আমন্ত্রিত না-মনোনীত (?!) লেখা (যদিও আপিসি মেইল করে জানানো হয়নি) What happens when Foucault is read not as a doctrine but as a device that reads back? Beginning with the sword suspended supposedly above Damocles, this essay follows its displacement—from sovereign threat to dispositif, from visible punishment to (in)visible surveillance, from the juridico-discursive to the rhizomatic capillary, from the sovereign who commands to the subject who learns to govern itself. Rather than applying Foucault to contemporary India, the essay de-seminates him in the context of present-day India: concepts scatter across Damocles, Orestes, parrhesia, the rhizome, the Frankfurt School, algorithmic surveillance, autocratic legalism, electoral politics, guilt and self-discipline, repeatedly returning in altered forms. The rhizome become...
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Azadi, or Democratic Unfreedom? A Video Message from OBMA

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  Azadi, or Democratic Unfreedom? A Video Message from OBMA Posted on 15th August, 2026 (GMT 06:52 hrs) Spoken by Akhar, Co-founder, Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA) ABSTRACT This video asks, from the standpoint of a young citizen, what “Azadi” (freedom) means in India today, and whether the formal existence of democracy can coexist with a lived condition of democratic unfreedom. Tracing the period from 2014 to 2026, it examines the erosion of civil liberties, institutional accountability, democratic participation, ecological security, and economic justice, before asking what genuine freedom might require: the Right to Reject, the Right to Recall, a partyless democracy, and an ecological politics rooted in Oikos — our shared home. VIDEO OVERVIEW From my teens to the present (2014–2026), what I have come to understand, as a citizen of India, is that azadi here amounts to nothing more than a democratic unfreedom. What I have witnessed is the negation of azadi: the throttling of fr...
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Encountering Pratijñābhaṅga: BJP’s Jumla Politics and the Hollow Piramal Promise

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  Encountering Pratijñābhaṅga: BJP’s Jumla Politics and the Hollow Piramal Promise The Sanātana Auto-Critique of the NDA Regime, 2013–2026 Posted on 16th August, 2026 (GMT 03:05 hrs) ABSTRACT This article argues that the political formation presenting itself as temporal guardian of Sanātana Dharma stands convicted, by that tradition’s own oath-jurisprudence, of serial pratijñā-bhaṅga (breach of the solemn word). Classical Indian thought treats the given word as a binding bond, its rupture punished both in the seen (dṛṣṭa: curse, fine, exile, infamy) and unseen (adṛṣṭa: loss of merit, hell). Reconstructing this jurisprudence from Vedic, epic, Nyāya and Dharmaśāstra sources, the paper applies it to two cases. Focus One: the Hollow Piramal Promise in the DHFL insolvency, where Piramal Capital publicly pledged fixed-deposit holders an extra 10% over the CoC plan yet delivered only 23.08% recovery (~77% haircut on ~₹5,375 crore), while assigning ~₹45,050 crore in alleged-fraud recoveri...
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