Can therapy address suffering without confronting the structures that produce it? In his talk at Institute Social, “Pirated Therapy: Caste Distress and the Colonial Clinic,” Prof. Sushrut Jadhav questioned how Western therapeutic models imported into India can overlook caste oppression and turn social suffering into an individual problem. His discussion of political therapy connected personal distress to structures of power, placing collective solidarity and social justice at the heart of the therapeutic process.

Remembering 17 October 1961. The massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris brought colonial violence into the streets of the French capital. Remembering that night means confronting the silences that have shaped its place in history.

At a time when award systems and the choices behind them are being questioned, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. What does this recognition mean for the struggle for justice and accountability?

Discovery for whom? The lands Columbus reached in 1492 already had names, peoples, and histories. Calling his arrival a “discovery” centres the coloniser’s perspective while pushing Indigenous knowledge and resistance out of the story.