Faridul Alam

Dr Faridul Alam is a former faculty member at the City University of New York (CUNY) and a licensed social work practitioner. He writes full-time on interdisciplinary issues, primarily through the lenses of postmodernism and postcolonialism.

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The unfinished histories of Partition

16 August 2026
Partition remains an unfinished history, shaped by competing narratives, memories, political interests, and the enduring question of who gets to narrate.
16 August 2026
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The Tagore paradox: Why critique strengthens his legacy

24 July 2026
Tagore’s literary authority endures because even attempts to challenge his canonical status ultimately reinforce his centrality instead.
24 July 2026
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How Roman Jakobson changed modern thought

18 July 2026
On Roman Jakobson's death anniversary, revisiting how one linguist reshaped structuralism, psychoanalysis, and interdisciplinary thought forever.
18 July 2026
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Why the US can no longer contain China

18 June 2026
Trump–Xi summit analysis exploring managed rivalry, interdependence, strategic instability, and the limits of contemporary geopolitical interpretation.
18 June 2026
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The apology for the animal: Donald Trump, the buffalo, and the breakdown of political naming

8 June 2026
Using Trump, a buffalo, and thinkers from Barthes to Nietzsche, this essay explores myth, metaphor, and power.
8 June 2026
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Tagore’s “Balaka” and the decolonial poetics of becoming

30 May 2026
A deep dive into Rabindranath Tagore’s Balaka, analyzing its kinetic cosmology, Indic traditions, and its relevance to modern decolonial thought.
30 May 2026
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The OpenAI–Musk dispute: Who controls the future of AI?

25 May 2026
The ongoing dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk has been framed, at least superficially, as a legal and personal confrontation—a founder challenging the trajectory of an institution he helped to create.
25 May 2026
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The hunt for the Holy Grail: The repurposed US-Israeli casus belli for Iran’s uranium

18 May 2026
A literary geopolitical essay tracing how war in Iran becomes a recursive quest for symbolic control and meaning.
18 May 2026
The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.

Of translation

The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.
18 February 2024
The question of translation

The question of translation

There is no denying the truism that translation historically served the best interest of the colonisers.
30 September 2023