Emotion of Motion: Piramal Pharma’s Naturolax and the Politics of the Gut
Emotion of Motion: Piramal Pharma’s Naturolax and the Politics of the Gut Posted on 16th December, 2025 (GMT 06:52 hrs) Updated on 17th December, 2025 (GMT 04:50 hrs) ABSTRACT Inspired by Chekhov’s “On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco”, this self-reflexive, darkly satirical essay stages constipation as a material, political, and ecological symptom of contemporary Indian capitalism, tracing an embodied genealogy from the Green Revolution’s chemical agriculture to financial trauma following the DHFL insolvency and the Supreme Court’s 2025 endorsement of the reportedly expropriative Piramal resolution plan. Through the narrator’s lived experience of chronic constipation and IBS, the text theorizes the gut as an archive of injustice, where delayed justice, hoarded capital, and authoritarian governance translate into stalled peristalsis. Naturolax—branded Isabgol marketed by Piramal Pharma—emerges as both literal laxative and critical allegory: a modest, reliable agent of movement ...