The Secular and the Not So Sacred:Few Thoughts on Asef Bayats 'The Sacred and the Secular

Asef Bayats piece on The Sacred and the Secular represents, a stark reality pointing towards the fact that our road towards decolonization is still a work-in-progress. Considering the hegemonic status which Liberal-Democracy and Modernity have both attained, a natural epidemic rampant amongst our academia and intelligentsia – Paradigm Paralysis might help explain this phenomenon, namely ones inability to "think outside the box (read, paradigm)".