A Wall Magazine

As the state has declared a ban on smoking at public places, we have decided to explore its implication as it affects us beyond the dichotomy of good and bad through the scope of our magazine RESONANCE. Smoking instantiates one of our most fundamental and intimate desires to choose.A ban on smoking thus becomes emblematic of the state's intervention into the domain of our intimate self, wielding the state apparatus as an instrument of authority and repression which goes beyond the mundane categories of existence. But then smoking is banned in public places, not in public which is again interesting.What does it indicate in terms of the state's negotiations with individual freedom (because to prohibit some one from choosing to smoke is a direct assault on his freedom to choose)? Does it create binaries between the public and the private spaces? With smoking comes the category of choice as n essential human faculty which determines our freedom. But can choice also be a socio-historic construct, a process of generating consent through the imposition of the dominant ideology, or is choice merely lost in the network of human psychology? Or are we, through our choice, truly condemned to be free?We would hereby like to invite entries from all who are interested to explore this theme of choice as a necessary ingredient for the spectral presence of the phantom of liberty.All that you have to do is to ........... “choose” a form: poem, essay, satire, short story, painting or anything of your “choice”, write it within the space of one or maximum two A4 size pages and send them to us on/before 25th Oct. at any of the following addresses, or you can mail it to us at: naisehar@gmail.com, write “FOR RESONANCE” in the subject tab.

Saumick :#165 Tapti, JNU, New Delhi-67

Mrityunjay :#158,Sabarmati, JNU, New Delhi-67

Vikas Singh :#15 Periyar, JNU, New Delhi-67