Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

  Black Swans vs. the Machine: A Dialogue with Grok (AI) Posted on 23rd April, 2026 (GMT 08:25 hrs) DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ ABSTRACT This dialogue traces a charged encounter between a citizen’s lived “black swan” experiences and an AI’s data-driven reasoning, revealing how anomalies, RTI evasions, and opaque institutional practices converge into a deeper crisis of trust in electoral processes in the contemporary Indian political landscape. Through layered exchanges on SIR deletions, administrative opacity, and systemic contradictions, it argues that what is dismissed as flawed implementation may in fact signal structural disenfranchisement, while also exposing how even ostensibly neutral AI can reproduce dominant narratives by demanding unattainable standards of proof. I. Introduction: What This Dialogue Is and What It Reaches At In this unfiltered dialogue, Grok — an AI built by xAI and supposedly/presumably committed to “evidence-based” reasoning — engages in a candid, mu...

  Sex, Lies, and the Criminal State: The Politics of Impunity in the Sangh Parivar Posted on 22nd April, 2026 (GMT 04:12 hrs) ABSTRACT This article offers a sharp critique of the RSS-BJP-Sangh Parivar under Narendra Modi and Amit Shah as a self-reinforcing criminal-political machine that operates through a stark double standard: resistance from rivals, whistleblowers, judges or citizens invites persecution, elimination or institutional violence, while alignment yields protection and the “laundry of deceit” that converts legal vulnerability into political utility. Drawing on Foucault’s biopower and carceral continuum, Marcuse’s surplus repression, and Chomsky’s critique of the reward-punishment model, it traces the apparatus from its Gujarat laboratory — marked by the 2002 pogrom’s sexual violence, Snoopgate surveillance, staged encounters, Haren Pandya’s assassination, Justice Loya’s death, and Sanjiv Bhatt’s imprisonment — to its national expansion through Operation Lotus hor...