Volume 1, Issue 3

Feminist political theory is not a single body of thought but a family of overlapping and often contending traditions that have shared one project: the critique of gendered power in public life. From the eighteenth-century arguments for civic equality advanced by Mary Wollstonecraft through the radical, socialist, intersectional and postcolonial revisions of the twentieth century, feminist theorists have steadily expanded both the meaning of ‘the political’ and the cast of subjects considered to have political standing.

The general election of 1989 marked a definitive break with the Congress-dominated party system that had structured Indian politics for four decades. From that point onwards, no single party commanded a parliamentary majority on its own for a quarter of a century, and the country was governed by a succession of multi-party coalitions: the National Front (1989–1990), the Narasimha Rao minority government (1991–1996), the two United Front ministries (1996–1998), the Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance (1998–2004), and the two terms of the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance (2004–2014).

“The emergence of digital infrastructure as the primary medium of economic, political, and social organization in the twenty-first century has engendered a new modality of asymmetrical global power, variously theorized as digital colonialism. This paper interrogates the structural conditions under which transnational technology corporations — concentrated overwhelmingly in the United States — have established quasi-monopolistic control over the global digital ecosystem, encompassing data flows, cloud computing infrastructure, algorithmic governance, and platform architectures.”,

The rapid maturation of generative adversarial network (GAN) architectures and diffusion-based synthesis models has produced a class of synthetic media — commonly designated as deepfakes — capable of fabricating audiovisual representations of real individuals with a degree of perceptual fidelity that increasingly exceeds unaided human detection. This paper examines deepfake technologies as a systemic threat to the legal, political, and social infrastructure of identity verification.

This research paper presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and ontological exploration of the ‘Theory of Silence’ and ‘Apophatic Philosophy of Language’ embedded within the prolific poetic universe of Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’, a preeminent poet, novelist, and thinker of modern Hindi literature. In response to the contemporary crisis of increasing verbosity, semantic decay, and consumerist clamor in language, Agyeya establishes ‘silence’ as a potent philosophical and poetic tool.