Maidul Islam
Political Trends in Contemporary West Bengal
An essay on the contemporary politics in West Bengal that accounts for the political character of Trinamool Congress, analyzes the dynamics of a declining Left and points out the signs of new political trends in the state.
Empire and its Double Standards
Avatar: Cinema of Liberal American Guilt
Films like other performative cultural forms can speak the language of its own times, in which they have been created and situated. As a visual reflection of society in which it is contextualized, it can speak both covertly and overtly about the past and present world, and albeit can articulate politics and reflect upon philosophy as well. James Cameron’s Avatar, a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster is not an exception in this regard. Maidul Islam writes in his review of the film.
Immortality of a Communist Leader
Maidul Islam, PhD Scholar at Oxford University, pays his respects and homage to Jyoti Basu.
Critical Notes on Amartya Sen’s ‘Idea of Justice’
“Sen, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics and a Lamont Professor of Economics and Moral Philosophy at Harvard University took an intelligent and pragmatic approach by pondering over the idea of ‘enhancement of justice’ by ‘removal of injustice’ instead of imagining an a priori perfect just society, or ‘identifying perfectly just social arrangements’ or ‘just institutions’ in his book. However, the book has several deficiencies, and in this article, we would try to point out those ontological, methodological and epistemological limits/problems of Sen’s idea of justice.”
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