Why Irad Kimhi is the contemporary philosopher we must read in the age of fake news

In ‘Thinking and Being’, Kimhi ties in logic, psychology and language to arrive at his unorthodox arguments.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jul 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

Beyond attacks on academic freedom, is the very idea of the university leading to its decay?

A collection of essays asks what it is that we are defending against illiberal policies and examines the future of the university in India.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Apr 06, 2019 · 07:30 pm

Narendra Dabholkar’s book is a beacon of reason and rationality against the darkness of superstition

Why we must read ‘A Case For Reason’ with even greater attention now, as irrationality and fake news threaten knowledge.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Oct 27, 2018 · 12:30 pm

This book argues that ‘Ambedkar-thought’ was revolutionary for world history (and not just India)

Arguably, no one has looked at BR Ambedkar and his place in the world the way Soumyabrata Choudhury does in this book.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Sep 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is yours a ‘bullshit job’? This book will tell you if it is, as it points to a paradox of capitalism

David Graeber book identifies the kind of work that adds no value in today’s economy, but millions are engaged in doing nevertheless.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jul 29, 2018 · 12:30 pm

So you think you know what reality is? This book on physics and philosophy will shatter your belief

In the process, you will also get to read a lucid history of the debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr over quantum physics.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jul 08, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Assets or customers: What will be the future form of the corporation in the post-capitalist economy?

Just how progressive is the alternative that Nick Srnicek’s ‘Platform Capitalism’ proposes?

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· May 20, 2018 · 07:00 am

Even without Cambridge Analytica (or Facebook), was the internet always meant for surveillance?

Yasha Levine’s ‘Surveillance Valley’ provides a frightening history of the dark side of the internet.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Mar 31, 2018 · 07:15 am

How do we explain the fact that militant Jihadists write poetry?

What makes the practice of terror compatible with the practice of culture and the arts?

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Dec 23, 2017 · 07:00 am

This book reveals what 9/11 (and after) may have been like from Osama Bin Laden’s point of view

The book details Osama’s cloistered life in Abbotabad, his squabbles with family, his dwindling power over his once subservient outfit, and his assassination.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Aug 06, 2017 · 07:00 am

Naiyer Masud (1936-2017): The great Urdu short story writer who cultivated artistic obscurity

Masud was a rare writer whose stark and bare Urdu prose was the expression of the trembling and stammering of language, of what was absent and unsaid.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jul 26, 2017 · 08:30 am

Indian Railways has long thrived in the popular imagination. Is this cultural story about to end?

The railways are about food, films, literature and culture, not just transport, argues a ‘biography’.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jun 18, 2017 · 05:30 pm