kriticulture

By Rajesh Sharma 'Complete Mukti' - Prime Minister Singh's hybrid phrase delivered from the Red Fort today, on 15 August 2013.  Is it a symptom of neoliberal pathologies of exclusive developmentalism transplanted on the Indian soil from abroad?  Does it say, despite 'their' silence, that we must now pick up a redesigned outfit of freedom - of freedom defined in and qualified by Western(ized) corporate terms?  At the same time, the brand new Manmohanism validates the operations of the native religious-corporate complex - by reimagining 'Mukti' in terms of the entertainment and fashion ideology of completism.  Recall Raymond's ad campaign: T he Complete Man.

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