Molly Charles (1) Margin, a term familiar from tender age; notebooks with clear cut margins to delineate the main body of text, define it. The margins give it definite shape, a practice that continues into the virtual world. Among humans, it is these margins that give identity to the large majority we term normal. The often, porous boundaries offer a chance for individuals to slip through and slip back into either ‘normal’ or ‘marginal’ spaces. The decision to identify with marginal groups or positions can be a conscious one as with (gender identity, drug use), enforced as in (mental health, racial and caste based discrimination) and accidental for (drug use, stigmatized diseases). In certain instances, as with mental health, some individuals may find their being part of marginal groups a permanent reality, in most other instances individuals do move in and out of marginal groups, as a survival strategy to deal with marginalization. Even when physical spaces merge, with an emphasis
A space to explore and known our world, our association with drugs, relevance and limitation of UN drug conventions, our digital age and relevance of AI, on Palestine, gender discrimination especially in India and Kerala, peace strategies, limitation of negative peace, blitzkrieg, towards this have used works of Kant and Heidegger to understand our search for altered states of consciousness, our search for peace and way we strategize ourselves.