Intersection of Politics and Power: Glimpses From the Grassroots
by Adwaith PB Beginning with an attempt to attribute a precise definition to “politics”, this article moves forward to contradict the prevalent notions of ‘the political’ being confined to the public life of an individual, the State and its institutions . Politics is not only intertwined with the day-to-day events of one’s life but also it’s present in its private sphere. The first part of this article is concluded by attributing a political dimension to the concept of Nature. Coming to the second part, this article spotlights the aspects of power and attempts to relate it with the larger political ecosystem. Decision-making , non-decision making and ideological/radical approach to power is explained along with deriving three more approaches to power, namely, power as control over resources , control over actors and control over outcomes and events. The entire article defines politics and approaches to power with the help of a simple issue of distributing a piece of chocolate