Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  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 ...

  “Who’s Got the Paper? I’ve Got the Match”: Osibisa and the Politics of Documentation Posted on 29th October, 2025 (GMT 05:30 hrs) AKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ ABSTRACT This paper offers an interpretive and historical reading of Osibisa’s 1970s Afro-rock track Who’s Got the Paper? as a sonic meditation on the politics of documentation, identity, and resistance. Beneath its surface as a jubilant “party anthem,” the song encodes a global genealogy of documentary surveillance—from colonial pass laws and apartheid bureaucracies to postcolonial citizenship registers and digital data regimes. The refrain’s dialectical call and response—“Who’s got the paper?” / “I’ve got the match”—stage an encounter between state surveillance and insurgent agency, between the archive’s demand for verification and the people’s capacity for ignition. Combining lyrical analysis with postcolonial, Foucauldian, and musicological frameworks, the paper interprets sound as a mode of political imagination that exc...