Contrary to his usual depiction as a modern secular thinker, heteronomous imaginaries of sacrality and kingship are pervasive in Rabindranath Tagore's plays. A return to these referents, as I show in ...this paper, releases Tagore's thought-world from the stranglehold of derivative categories and allows for his reconstruction as a political thinker. Eschewing the nationalist ideal of valiant and noble rulers shored up from histories and myths as legitimate alternatives to the colonial regime, Tagore aesthetically employed the imaginary of an "absent king" sourced from the Upanishads. Avoiding the tropes of spectrality of a dead king or an exceptional interregnal anarchic moment, emptiness was inscribed in the very heart of the monarchical model, thereby transfiguring it into a radical instituting imaginary of the social. This curiously brought together the apparently antithetical categories of sovereignty and freedom through an insistence on creative will and action.
The evil of neo-liberalism lies in its Washington consensus model which renders redundant the notion and praxis of sustainability. Environment has been worst hit by the arbitrary growth of industry; ...unfortunately, it has been accepted as natural fallout of progress until now when the issue of human rights has been read into the worsening climate. This essay vies for introducing corporate social responsibility and free, prior and informed consent into the convergence of environmental sustainability and human rights.
The evil of neo-liberalism lies in its Washington consensus model which renders redundant the notion and praxis of sustainability. Environment has been worst hit by the arbitrary growth of industry; ...unfortunately, it has been accepted as natural fallout of progress until now when the issue of human rights has been read into the worsening climate. This essay vies for introducing corporate social responsibility and free, prior and informed consent into the convergence of environmental sustainability and human rights.
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