A Market That Honours Love
Many romantic connections fade before they ever get the chance to truly blossom. The feeling of longing for a former partner often remains even after a relationship ends. There are […]
An Emerging Economic System
A new economic system is gradually taking shape - the Loneliness Economy. The core arrangement of this economy, which is determined to erase loneliness, relies on selling convenient, individualistic substitutes for community and connection.
Plato’s Concept Of Democracy & Present-Day India
By Rohan Kuddus/Anindya Rudra Plato’s profound disdain for democracy was rooted in his belief that it is an inherently unstable system, often degenerating into a mob rule that sacrificed wisdom […]
Danes Will No Longer Write Letters
The emotions expressed on paper have come to a halt as they are unable to keep pace with the speed of internet. In the age of email, messaging, WhatsApp and […]
Palestine, Israel Witness Emotional Reunions
All of them have been homeless for nearly two years as some were detained by Israel, while others by the Palestinian Hamas Movement. As both the parties recently agreed to […]
The Social Impact Of ‘Use & Throw’ Culture
Sixty-five years ago, when I got my cycle out of the house for a ride, I was interrupted by a friend with the question: “Hey, where are you going?” I […]
The Gospel Of Uncertainty
Each and every era recognises contemporary stalwarts in its own way. People in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata failed to discover Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, […]
Study: Friends May Affect Digestive System!
Sometime in the first half of the 17th Century, Jan Baptist van Helmont (January 12, 1580 – December 30, 1644) claimed that there was a link between emotions and the […]
Tracing The Roots Of Animal Cruelty
The Sociology-oriented concept of Post-Humanism and recent developments in Evolution, Biology, Neuroscience, etc. have changed human understanding of nature in recent times. Today, one knows that the source of oppression […]
