Rana Bose

Some Hard-to-Chew Facts!

For the foods we chow down on every day, labels and nutrient values do not tell us enough about the history of their evolution or the processes used in their production. When we eat, we don’t always know […]

Commentary

A Beat in My Head, A Word in my Heart, A Javelin Hurled in the Sky

Rana Bose

I adjust my non-existent headphones and I add castanets, maracas, timbales, and I try to change the beat

Book Review

The Skin Below the Mask

Rana Bose

Easily Fooled, by H. Nigel Thomas Guernica Editions, 2021, 293 pages It does not matter how sharp and on top of things we are, we have been duped and hoodwinked too easily at some point in our lives […]

Editorial

Magma and Slivers of Moon

Rana Bose

In this significant departure from the beaten path by our editorial board, we chose to dispense with the “theme statement”

Editorial

From Black Pepper and Coriander to Supply Chain and Pandemic Leverage

Rana Bose

Globalization, as a phase of capitalist mutation, received a punch in the face from COVID-19.

Editorial

Climate change and the commons

Rana Bose, Nilambri Ghai and Jody Freeman

In the past couple of years, we have all discussed and dissected, with intensity, the man-made climatological changes that have hit our earth. It has become frustratingly clear that it is not enough to debate the science, the […]

Meditation

First Principles and Aesthetics

Rana Bose

When we say first principles, we claim we are going down to the basics. To a fundamental truth. Being totally iterative, methodical and without prejudice. We are arriving at a fundamental principle. Scientists are not supposed to assume anything […]

Commentary

Making Khichdi or Hodgepodge Out of Identity and Class

Rana Bose

Beliefs and affiliations There are many people who relate the concept of “class” to level of income. This is understandable given that a majority of people see “class” as an extension of an archaic English approach towards social “classification” […]

Film Review

What should have been a Spike Lee spliff…Review of BlacKkKlansman

Rana Bose

In response to a three-page critique[1] of the film by Boots Riley, the first point I want to make is that labelling, categorizing, denouncing, and tearing apart a filmmaker’s entire IMDb may be cool posturing, but it is […]

Poetry

Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan & I Shot a .38

Rana Bose

Man on a Rocking Chair in San Juan In San Juan I found a man rocking on his balcony, the floors creaking, the glaze in the gaze, a daffodil stem hanging from his lips. I asked him was he […]

Essay

Populism: Mesmerize and Confound the Present and Sully the Past!

Rana Bose

Sometime in 1976, Jean Baudrillard, the French philosopher, suggested that saturating the media with carefully selected flash news disables the concept of historicity, depth, intelligence and transparency in following daily events, and creates a hyper-reality that challenges or drowns out […]

Commentary

The Marriage Made in Purgatory: Intelligent Tech and Unbridled Greed

Rana Bose

Such systems are attempting to learn to recognize and identify voices, images, vocal tones and facial expressions, and develop a response that will go beyond a databank-based response system.

Meditation

Screaming Lambs, Skins and a Grandfather’s Eyes

Rana Bose

Having played Hitler,Nixon and a range of serial killers and social screw-ups, and Picasso, for that matter, the aura surrounding his presence in a frame shot is devilishly complete.

Commentary

Theodolites, Rights and Democracy

Rana Bose

Like worms in the soil, we love to slide and wriggle down this wonderful rectilinear cement-way of uniformity.

Essay

Sustenance is not debatable

Rana Bose

Perhaps the notion that indigenous people living on reservations should have the same constitutional right to clean drinking water as non-indigenous people has not really dawned on the city people!