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Posted on 16th December, 2025 (GMT 06:52 hrs) Updated on 17th December, 2025 (GMT 04:50 hrs) ABSTRACT Inspired by Chekhov’s “On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco”, this self-reflexive, darkly satirical essay stages constipation as a material, political, and ecological symptom of contemporary Indian capitalism, tracing an embodied genealogy from the Green Revolution’s chemical agriculture to…

Posted on 29th October, 2025 (GMT 03:49 hrs) Editor’s Note:This essay continues our investigation into the moral and epistemic architecture of India’s pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, following earlier reports on Piramal Pharma’s Lacto Calamine and Tetmosol. Here, the inquiry shifts from reportage to philosophy — exploring what it means for care itself to become a site of…