The death of Susan Sontag in New York following a prolonged struggle with lukemia is an event the world mourned. Loke her other fellow New Yorker Edward Said Susan too was the voice of reason and intellect in an increasingly belligerent USA. She was instinctively against any form of political or ideological coercion and was deeply scrptical of the promise of freedom through political means. Hers was an individual's tryst with destiny in the same manner that Hannah Arndt believed that collecti...

The recent death of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida came as a bolt from the blue. He declared that there is no Truth everything is just a discourse. Is his death true. The News of his death, if true, means that there are absolute truths in this world and knowledge is about the quest for truth. There is nothing outside the "TEXT" he once declared. By depriving human society of the ability to search for the Trith, and advocating a relativistic perspective, men like Derrida instead of m...