Around 380 B.C. Plato in his phenomenal work The Republic, discussed five types of political regimes which he thought that they progressively degenerate from one to the another: Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy and Tyranny. The society and the state in the first four regimes are principally driven and ruled on the ground of wisdom &… Continue reading Western democracies: a pathological outlook
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Truth, meaning & interpretation in the postmodern world
What is Truth? Do authority, government, media create and sell truth to us? Historians for example may ask: did Saddam Hussein really have mass destructive weapons that U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003? Conspiracy theorists may come with numerous supporting evidences that Illuminati is real. Or one might ask whether moon landing was … Continue reading Truth, meaning & interpretation in the postmodern world
Life in the north: my experience of the Dutch society
P.C: Mr. S. Mukherjee After moving from India and living in the very north of The Netherlands for four long years as a PhD student, I ask myself: what are the unique attributes that make one feel that they belong in the Dutch society? Well, when it comes to living the life in a vibrant… Continue reading Life in the north: my experience of the Dutch society
Saikat Chatterjee 