The crooked timber of Modi’s India

Emerging from a crucial congressional session that approved her impeachment, a puzzled Dilma Rousseff turned to her lawyer and confessed that she “felt like Joseph K”, the character in Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1925) who is arrested and eventually executed for an unspecified crime.1 It was easy to understand why Rousseff thought her dismissal from t

Modern efforts to locate universalisms in secular ethical tenets –such as Kantian moral universalism, communism or modernization theory – are in apparent retreat, precisely at a time when nationalism has succumbed to capitalist forms of universal commodification.