Beyond the Nation State: How Rana Dasgupta’s ‘After Nations’ Maps the Decline of Global Sovereignty and the Rise of Contemporary Theocracy
If you have been watching routine discussions about the ongoing global bloodbaths, it is likely that you have grown weary of words like “escalation”, “humanitarian zone”, “pre-emptive strikes”, and suchlike. Emptied of all empathy and moral disgust, the calculus of war drones on with its pathetic vocabulary, leaving some fundamental questions wilfully unanswered. What is…