Revisiting George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”
George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” written in 1946, has been a staple of the curricular diet for generations of students over the decades across universities of the world. In that essay, Orwell treats thought and language as being in a dialectical relationship. While we may suppose that the one simply determines the…
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Philosopher Who Didn’t Kill God
At forty-four years of age, Friedrich Nietzsche, reportedly, collapsed in a street in Turin. A horse was being whipped, and Nietzsche ran toward it; so one believes. He wrapped his arms around its neck and, apparently, the world’s most dangerous philosopher began sobbing.
Arup K. Chatterjee 