Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  The Sovereign Insider: A Philosophical Indictment of Corporate Immunity in India — An Open Letter to Ajay Piramal Posted on 24th November, 2025 (GMT 06:57 hrs) ABSTRACT This open letter to Mr. Ajay Piramal is a philosophical indictment of the structural immunity enjoyed by India’s most privileged corporate actors, written from the vantage point of the outsider — the figure who stands scorched at the margins while power glides in the cool interior of impunity. Drawing on Camus, Kafka, Agamben, Śūdraka, and Brecht, the letter argues that the DHFL debacle and a string of insider-trading controversies reveal not isolated breaches but a systemic architecture in which political patronage, regulatory indulgence, and judicial hesitation combine to create a sovereign exception for the well-connected. Through satire, allegory, and critical theory, the narrative exposes how legality becomes porous, accountability becomes theatrical, and “honour” becomes a performative mask concealing a...

  Piramal Pharma’s QuikKool and the Biopolitics of Relief Posted on 22nd November, 2025 (GMT 07:48 hrs) ABSTRACT This essay is a hybrid inquiry into pain, pharmacology, and structural violence, using Piramal Pharma’s QuikKool oral gel as both a clinical artefact and a political metaphor. Grounded in the lived experience of the author as a DHFL victim—one of the statistically erased bodies in India’s ongoing financial governance crisis—the text follows how stress-induced oral ulcers become sites of embodied vulnerability. These wounds, though clinically minor, reveal a deeper narrative: that the body becomes an archive where systemic injustice is recorded in mucosal scar tissue, where governance is felt not only in courts and bureaucracies but also in nerves, blood vessels, and salivary chemistry. A rupture in the narrative—a pharmacological table—interrupts the personal account, echoing what D. S. Kothari identifies as the reductionist violence of modern medicine. Clinical dat...