Commentary
Akashvani…
I ask how a song supposedly suppressed by Congress became something generations of ...
Commentary
Patriotism.
I ask what patriotism means when nationalism demands that lawyers, doctors, scholars, and ...
Commentary
A tryst, betrayed.
I compare two Independence Day voices and ask what their distance reveals about ...
Abhijit Gadgil
Death. And life.
I remember two sudden deaths and confront what they taught me about living ...
Commentary
Self-goal as strategy.
I argue that India keeps mistaking tactical political cleverness for strategy, despite history ...
Activism
Sharmaji ka Beta vs Ors.
For nearly a fortnight, the group had been locked. The administrators had switched ...
AI
Things to burn. Stories to tell.
A radio interview prompts me to write a sweeping history of human civilisation ...
AI
Raw Material
I realise artificial intelligence has recreated the logic of colonialism, and ask why ...
Commentary
The Sane Person’s Guide to the CJP
I examine a viral political movement, separate evidence from paranoia, and ask what ...
Activism
Punishment for disagreement.
When did disagreement stop demanding intellectual argument, logic, and rhetoric and start insisting ...
AI
Token panic?
I reflect on AI costs, technological abundance, and why judgment may outlast intelligence ...
Advice
Roses, lawyers, and the first letter to a big girl!
In my first letter, I write to Kymaia about growing up, law, truth, ...
Activism
Sorry, Karnataka.
I realise, with growing discomfort, that Maharashtra and Bengal, both exported India’s conscience ...
Consciousness
The Only Question.
The only question worth answering in philosophy is the only question worth asking ...
Activism
The Revolution Will Not Be Memeified.
A meme page is not a movement; India still changes power through booths, ...
Activism
EncRoaching on the liberal vote bank?
A meme page did not create India’s anger; it merely laughed loudly enough ...
Commentary
Roman Holiday?
A republic begins to decay when rulers demand sacrifice from citizens whilst performing ...
Activism
My Lords. And Masters?
In a republic, judges are supposed to command respect through reasoning, not demand ...
Commentary
The fall of a civilisation.
I look at Rome’s decline from a millennium and a half ago and ...
