Almost Doctor Archives
An archive of my writings and a place for my writing experiments and projects.
Thursday, 4 June 2026
DJ and DJ
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Civilizational Toilet
Temple Run
The informal governance of this country, as I have seen in the past decade, operates by giving its executive branch stability and freedom to exercise anarchic impunity on people. The design of the deep state of this country is, if you can imagine it, a smaller triangle in a larger triangle where the apex of both of the triangles overlap but the base falls short and the base of the smaller triangle operates as a panopticon for the remaining space and base of the larger triangle. In short, the larger triangle is the democratic nation and the smaller triangle is a clandestine communist state within it with feudal, corporate and mafia components and operates like providence when in reality it is a criminal syndicate with religion as the primary instrument of control mostly working through victim blaming through karma or sin. India once had an actual religion, actual faith which was not opiate of the masses. I, personally, only have faith in South Indian temples because they are the only surviving relics of faith from the past at least in architecture and aura. North Indian temples were either destroyed by invaders or got destroyed from within by corruption, not that I believe that South Indian temples are perfect but at least there is continuity of architecture and aura. I went to Haridwar and I saw the temple priest talking about Uttar Pradesh politics. I went to Kashi Vishwanath and saw a daroga totally ignoring line of devotees and getting in the temple, not for security but for darshan. Then there is separate VIP darshans from North to South. Even God prioritizes the privileged. In the mid 2010s I got exposed to a reality of this country that made temples redundant for me though I still retain my faith privately and visit temples as a familial obligation. It is in 2010s I realised that those who truly rule this country think of religion as opiate of masses and it means those who control people through religion themselves do not believe in God, like I said a communist state. Faith is important and what is God if not truth and love. Although I believe in my Gods, the Mother Goddesses, what I ended up seeing in the 2010s proved to me that the kind of God the majority grew up believing in doesn’t exists though omniscience and to a fair degree omnipotence (I know it’s ironical) exists but it is not God but the panopticon. The God inside me gives me the strength to survive my tribulations which the deep politics of this land inflicts on me and that confirmed to me that my God, although impotent at physical plane, empowers me at the spiritual plane. Why I don’t believe in the God about whom I was told in my childhood, because I have seen the impunity, cruelty and exploitation which the God I believed in wouldn’t have tolerated. The existence of individuals who do crowd control for the deep state of this country and how mindlessly the engineer people’s lives is evidence enough that the God I believed in in my childhood doesn’t exist. But Ram does, and so does Krishna, as archetypes and these archetypes take the shape of faith one has. I believe in the idealism of Ram and teaching of Krishna, but we have come way further from them as a nation and this is what happens when a criminal syndicate rules a nation.
Sansmaran
It’s all about understanding. Once you make sense of the culture around you and realise that it is not the continuation of authentic culture but a hyperreality wearing costume of the authentic culture along with manipulation, exploitation and discrimination from the base itself. What is to be done in that scenario? When I was a kid in the 90s I used to read yatra sansmaran where people used to describe their experiences of travel, I remember one such sansmaran where a woman described cold droplets of water falling on her face from the Bhedaghat falls in Bhedaghat. I was a kid and when I read that sansmaran I felt cool droplets of Bhedaghat falls on my face. Bhedaghat is not a tier 1 tourist place but the experience of that woman was tier 1 and thus I was able to feel that tier 1 experience. It is what the politics or should I say deep politics of our times is doing, sabotaging people’s authentic experiences and damaging their ability to have good experiences. That woman wrote that sansmaran in Balhans, so I would imagine it she was middle class like me, and the setup today is that experiences are tiered, only tier 1 people would have tier 1 experiences and tier 4 people must have tier 4 experiences, and in the deep politics of this country as I have experienced it in the past decade it is an unsaid rule. Not to mention the predatory commercialization of all our beloved hill stations, beaches and tourist destinations. You can be tier 3 and feel the predation or you can be tier 1 and spend your time in a resort in the same place and have a curated experience which is only as real as the curation. When I used to read folk comics that Anant Kushwaha made in Balhans back then, there was still some culture left and now all culture, if your eyes are open, is fake. Now it’s not about feeling the droplets of water at a waterfall but going to place and eating a pizza or croissant and taking foodpic to show people that you in fact had the croissant in this tier 1 restaurant and save it as a memory which is subconsciously saving a class marker, a class checkpoint. This much is enough to make out that this country at the deepest level is governed by absoutely retarded, incompetent and exploitative scum. I have done analysis of past and present, what remains is future and one can’t analyse the future but can only conceptualise about it. The culture that Anant Kushwaha propagated through his chitrakathas is dead and what remains is pizzas and croissants and people clicking them to show in future that they could afford it in the past. As a writer, since I have analysed the past and present, what remains for me is the future, which at this point seems like slavery. What I can do and probably would do, at a personal level, is mythmaking. Creating modules for the younger generation so that they can negotiate memes and the authentic culture within the framework of class based exploitation and deletion of the actual cultures of the land and their replacement with a mongrel hyperreality mimicking the real culture but is actually at base is political technology of exploitation and destruction of beauty from the classes below tier 1.
Sunday, 31 May 2026
Shortform Therapy
We live in times when mental health is everything. India as a country is governed through psychosocial designs and thus a lot of mental health depends on social relations. My personal approach is of defining my relationships and I had to do this when I realised that the bottom line reality of this country doesn’t allow for sentimentality in relationships and when it does it is bound to get exploited in future and so “choosing the ones one is ready to suffer for” is the better approach. Another approach I took was that I stopped thinking about people at all, unless of course it is necessary for survival or otherwise. I think about ideas and things and so when I get thoughts about people I end up knowing that it is not me but psychosocial designs. In India, hell is other people. You don’t suffer yourself, you suffer others and so simplification is absolutely necessary. Another thing that is important is to keep a journal and to learn to find your voice in the rubble of psychosocial and psychopolitical designs. And one should always ask questions to oneself. Asking questions to oneself is absolutely required in the political reality we are living in present because this is the only way you’d end up knowing what you truly want though it is absolutely important that you are confirm that the answer is yours and not bypassed through the politics in your head. There are psychosocial thought complexes, of fear, of shame and other emotions especially negative emotions and to keep your mental health good you must be able to simplify and resolve these thought complex. It is important to resolve the conflicts in your mind and you must ask yourself first the answers you are seeking. Poverty and dysfunctional families not only cause mental health issues but also sustain it. Money and love of family are very important for mental health as they are for survival in fact they are the primary treatment for mental health issues. Most mental health issues are not true mental diseases but of sociopolitical origin and finding out whether one has a genuine mental issue or sociopolitical oppression helps with self-blame. Mental health is a stigma for the sole reason that what rules people in this country doesn’t want the people, especially those who don’t have the hand of providence on their heads, to become the best version of themselves. When you can’t talk about mental health you can’t take corrective steps because all action begins with acknowledgement of issues that one has. Resolution of thought complexes are important and one can play it as a game of solution, giving solutions to self like they are giving advice to someone in their position. Having second person and third person perspectives of one’s problems helps immensely. It all ultimately boils down to money and family support if we are talking mental health though it doesn’t mean a person lacking them can’t survive without them, it would just be more difficult. Having an ideological and ethical framework according to one’s beliefs and personality is important so that one knows that they are actually playing their own game and not of others.
Life Forty-seven
Saturday, 30 May 2026
Chicken Salami and Virgin Mojito
DJ and DJ
While a lot of my writing might seem paranoid it is not actually. I am a calm individual who was anxious as a school and college guy but mos...