Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  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...

  Why India Needs a No Kings Movement: From Fascist Corporatocracy to Partyless Democracy Posted on 30th October, 2025 (GMT 11:30 hrs) A Brief Reflection On Power, Corporatocracy, And The Dream Of A Partyless Democracy Authored by  Partyless Society⤡ ABSTRACT This essay traces the global and Indian convergences of authoritarian populism, corporate capture, and digital surveillance through the metaphor of kingship. Beginning with the “No Kings” movement in the U.S., it reinterprets democracy as an anti-monarchical ethic — a practice of shared sovereignty rather than submission to personality cults. Through Modi’s curated spectacle of power, the text exposes India’s descent into corporatocracy, pseudology, and ecological tyranny. It ultimately envisions a “partyless democracy” rooted in decentralization, mutual care, and invisible leadership — a republic without kings, parties, or masters. The “No Kings” protests emerged as a massive, decentralized democratic uprising that ...