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  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 ...

  Bhagat Singh Speaks in 2025: A Spectre Haunts the Rulers of India! Posted on 8th December, 2025 (GMT 06:15 hrs) ABSTRACT This manifesto—framed as Bhagat Singh’s return in 2025—condemns the erosion of democracy, secularism, and socialism in contemporary India under the BJP-led oligarchy. It denounces crony capitalism, authoritarian governance, and the DHFL scam as symbols of systemic exploitation. Calling for reason, scientific temper, and constitutional duty, it urges India’s oppressed citizens to resist through coordinated legal action, peaceful yet militant mass mobilization, and digital activism. The message rejects silence, warns against authoritarian decay, and invokes revolutionary solidarity to reclaim justice, dignity, and democratic rights. In Continuation With “Our sole purpose was “to make the deaf hear” and to give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done, and from under the seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a verit...