Author: Shafakat Hassan

French philosopher Henry Bergson differentiated between the idea of time as clock time and durée réelle (real duration) i.e. experienced time. While one can be…

The idea of culture being an artefact that needs excavation draws a wedge between popular culture and the refined museum of academia

An oft-quoted statement of Karl Marx, from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, expresses in a profound way how humans see…

Sitting behind the register, Stuart recalls former times. He used to own a comic bookstore. Though modest, it had an aesthetic appeal. Recently, a conglomerate…

Never were we freer than under the German occupation. With these ironic words, Jean-Paul Sartre drew a prelude to his article in The Atlantic Monthly…

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. These words from the Communist Manifesto resound many where. What did Marx…

Red Rosa now has vanished too, And where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life’s about, And so the rich…

Not the automobile is repressive, not the television set is repressive, not the household gadgets are repressive, but the automobile, the television, the gadgets which,…

It shall be apt to begin with the famous words of Munshi Premchand – in his Presidential Address, to the All India Progressive Writers’ Association’s…