By Vikash Singh
Vikash Singh walked with the pilgrims of the Kanwar procession, and with this ebook, he highlights how the procession bargains a social house the place members can turn out their skills, unravel, and ethical worthy. operating throughout social idea, phenomenology, Indian metaphysics, and psychoanalysis, Singh indicates that the pilgrimage offers a spot within which individuals can at the same time recreate and get ready for the bad, casual economic climate and inevitable social uncertainties. In deciding upon with Śiva, who's either grasp of the area and but a pathetic drunkard, members exhibit their very own sovereignty and desirability regardless of their stigmatized prestige. Uprising of the Fools indicates how faith this day isn't a retreat into culture, yet another discussion board for attractiveness and resistance inside of a rampant worldwide neoliberalism.
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