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Tree of Hope, Partition Museum, Amritsar
Psyche and Society
February 7, 2024

Inter-Community Relations: Psychoanalytical explorations

Tree of Hope, Partition Museum, Amritsar https://www.partitionmuseum.org/ (Retrieved May 7th, 2022)  “It has no other end in view than to throw light on things by tracing what is manifest back…
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May 12, 2022

Historical trauma, mourning and majoritarianism: Psycho-social explorations

Mourning is commonly associated with death of a near and dear loved one. Apathy, a turning away from the outer world, lack of interest in activities un-connected with the loved…
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Psyche and Society
October 2, 2019

Gandhi’s odyssey of ends and means as a guiding force – His example could guide us on how to acknowledge and take charge of our ‘bad’ selves

In a world full of inequality and injustice, there has been a constant striving for a more egalitarian and just order. Crucial to the question of efforts at a better…
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Psyche and Society
July 29, 2019

HOW HATE WORKS – REVIEW OF BOOK ANATOMY OF HATE BY REVATI LAUL

Commenting on the performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Gujarat State Assembly elections in December 2017, where the incumbent party had barely managed a majority, journalist Revati…
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Psyche and Society
December 11, 2017

Psychoanalysis and Hindustani Classical Music: Resonances

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC: RESONANCES By Rakesh Shukla In tune with the Indian way of story- telling of connecting with the past and much of psychoanalytical writings, let us…
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Psyche and Society
November 9, 2017

Azim Premji University Colloquium Series: “The Lure of Fascism: Agonies and Delights”

Azim Premji University Colloquium Series “The Lure of Fascism: Agonies and Delights” By Rakesh Shukla Watch the live broadcast of the talk by clicking http://lectures.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/. It can be accessed from Android…
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Psyche and Society
April 12, 2016

Beef, Murderous Rage, Public Lynching: A Look under the Surface

The rumours of beef being eaten, the murderous rage evoked and the public lynching in September 2015 of 58 year old Muslim man Aqlakh in Bisada village next to New…
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Psyche and Society
June 10, 2015

Sex workers: repositories of the ‘bad’?

The recent proposal by the Chairperson of India’s National Commission of Women to legalise sex work in India has sparked of a debate around the polarizing subject of prostitution. Sex…
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Psyche and Society
October 30, 2014

The Murderous Rage of the Ordinary – A Perspective from India

The myth that psychopaths and sociopaths are out there in slums, ghettos and mental asylums stands shattered by the frequent reports of brutal torture of maids and domestic servants in…
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Psyche and Society
April 11, 2014

Love and Rage: Role of Splitting, Projection and Narcissism

In the recent shocking incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, Akash, a 23-year old student armed with a gun, axe and knife furiously attacked the object of…
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Psyche and Society
December 4, 2013

Agent Provocateur par excellence

A review of 'Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair' by Ashish Nandy. Ashis Nandy’s new book explores Indian narcissism, patriotism and nationalism. A drive through any of the glitzy new…
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Psyche and Society
November 16, 2013

What turns aam admi into a monster at home

The myth that psychopaths and sociopaths are out there in slums, ghettos and mental asylums stands shattered by the frequent reports of brutal torture of maids and domestic servants in middle-class homes. It…
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Psyche and Society
September 1, 2013

A wake-up call for counselling in colleges 

In a recent shocking incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Akash, a 23-year-old student armed with a gun, axe and knife, furiously attacked the object of his ‘love’, who is battling…
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Psyche and Society
June 10, 2013

The Rage of Angels: Anger, Fury, Brutal Rape, Protests, Police Action

“He among you who is without sin, let him first cast a stone upon her.” John 8:7 If not comforting, it is less distressful to view the brutal rape of…
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Psyche and Society
December 21, 2012

Childrearing practices, culture and psychology

The vexed saga of the two Bhattacharya children Aishwarya and Abhigyan, taken away in May 2011 from their Indian parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Agency, (Barnevernet) created unprecedented uproar…
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Psyche and Society
March 24, 2012

Paved with good intentions

The vexed saga of the two Bhattacharya children, Aishwarya and Abhigyan, taken away in May 2011 from their Indian parents by Norway’s Child Welfare Agency, (Barnevernet) has been bedevilled by…
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Psyche and Society
November 10, 2011

Magic, Science, Myth: Merry Coexistence

“Spirits and demons are only projections of man’s own emotional impulses” Totem and Taboo, Freud (1913) “Failure in Love, Evil-Eye of the Enemy, Lack of Progeny, Loss in Business, Alcoholism…
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October 28, 2010

Arushi murder: ambivalence in child-parent relationship

Arushi, a 14-year-old schoolgirl and the family’s domestic help were found murdered in her house in NOIDA, a satellite town of the capital New Delhi, on May 16, 2008. Her…
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Psyche and Society
January 11, 2010

“Honour” Killings: Look Within The Psyche

The killing in July 2009 of 21-year-old Ved Pal in Singhwal village in Haryana when he had gone, accompanied by policemen, to pick up his wife Sonia, has re-focused attention…
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Psyche and Society
July 5, 2008

Inconvenient Truths

At the heart of psychoanalysis is ‘free association’, a process that makes little distinction between reality and fantasy. It may have little relevance for a criminal investigation. The Arushi murder…
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Psyche and Society
January 15, 2007

Nithari’s Trauma

The villagers of Nithari stare fixedly at the drain from which the bones of the disappeared children are being excavated. The incident itself is too horrific for the reality to…
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Psyche and Society
November 25, 2006

Probe the Unconscious

Kimveer Gill, a Canadian youth of Sikh origin, went on a shooting spree on September 13 at the Montreal College in Canada. Gill entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire…
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Psyche and Society
April 16, 2005

Repressed sexuality as a trigger for violence

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) decision at a recent conclave in Delhi to return to an agenda of Hindutva points to the deep roots of fascism and its dangers as…
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Psyche and Society
May 6, 2004

Mother Goddesses and Warriors Review of Gender in Hindu Nation by Paolo Bachcheta

Book Review: Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues By Paola Baccheta, 2004 Feminist Fineprint Published by Women Unlimited, an Associate of Kali for Women Price: Rs 200…
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