The Flaneur's Eye

✍️ Radhakrishnan Dutta    For more than fifty years, a man lived alone in the depths of the Amazon rainforest, without a name, without a tribe, without a voice heard by another human being. Known to the outside world as the Man of the Hole, he survived in silence after his people were wiped out by the intrusions of civilisation. This essay traces his solitary life alongside a fictional counterpart—Michael K—and reflects on isolation, speechlessness, and the fragile boundary between the self and the world.        Deep inside the mighty Amazon rainforest lived a man – his name unknown. In fact there was no address, no family history and recorded contact of this man with the outside world. He belonged to one of the hundreds of uncontacted tribes still living inside the Amazon jungle, their homelands for thousands of years, existing side by side with Mother Nature. They lived in thatched huts; they hunted and gathered food; they practised rudimentary farming; t...

An in-depth analysis of energy efficiency in India, covering consumption trends, key policies, EV transition, and the roadmap to net-zero emissions by 2070 ✍️ Radhakrishnan Dutta India’s Net Zero Commitments:  Energy efficiency is one of the major pivots towards India’s goal of net zero emission by 2070. It is also one of the SDG’s of the Paris framework agreement on climate change, 2015. Under sub section 7.3 of SDG 7, enhanced energy efficiency has been marked as a critical milestone for a sustainable future for humanity. Among the Nationally determined contribution (NDC) India submitted to the UNFCC in 2015, one related to energy was to achieve 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel sources. This underscores the importance of energy efficiency in the fight against climate change both nationally and globally. Energy Consumption Trends and Energy Intensity in India : As we are moving towards another year taking us clos...

How modern technology and AI reshape human perception and identity. A philosophical reading of Martin Heidegger’s concept of enframing and its relevance in today’s corporate digital world.   ✍️ Radhakrishnan Dutta          German philosopher Martin Heidegger in an essay entitled Questions Concerning Technology discussed the way in which technology alienates an individual from a true understanding of the world and its reality. He used the German term Ge-stell ; which is roughly translated into English as “enframing” or “challenging forth” as the purpose of technology. Technological inventions basically challenge human users into an understanding of the world defined by it. So, Heidegger’s idea was that technology contorts the perceptions of humans into a particular direction. The person loses his discerning abilities, his agency to the will of the machine. Heidegger predicted this future in the year 1954. In hindsight, Heidegger’s prophecy has ...

  ✍️ Radhakrishnan Dutta      In the second half of the twentieth century, population explosion was a major challenge that occupied the discourse about global demography. However, in a reversal of the situation, now a growing demographic collapse has become a pressing concern in a whole array of countries, mostly the developed economies.Japan and South Korea are facing one of the sharpest demographic crises in modern history, raising questions about why Japan’s birth rate is falling and how South Korea’s low fertility rate can be explained. Recent data suggests that Japan and South Korea are on the brink of imminent population collapse, with total fertility rates (TFR) of the native population in both nations standing far below the replacement rate of 2.1. South Korea’s TFR stood at 0.75 in 2024, while Japan is hovering around 1.2 since 2023. Japan government data suggests that Japan’s population declined by 908,574 in 2024. It has a staggering 30% elderl...