Art
Whose song is it, anyway?
I examine how outrage mistakes the visible performer for the true author, and ...
Activism
Mugger, murderer, medicine, mausoleum…
I argue that even in a corrupt republic, a life-saving vaccine is not ...
Activism
The Idea of a Republic.
I reflect on how a republic survives not through identity or doctrine, but ...
Ageing
The Only Possible World.
I follow a murderous thought experiment until it collapses into a meditation on ...
Anger
The pickpocket. And my sanity.
I examine the moment when the pickpocket is predictable, the police are fallible, ...
Advice
Teaching Thought Itself.
I argue that our schools teach content but fail to teach children how ...
Advice
An Open Letter to Shehzaad Poonawalla.
I write an honest open letter to a BJP spokesperson who markets belonging ...
Bias
Can They Really Do That?
I trace how the question “Can they really do that?” stopped being disbelief ...
Celebration
The wrong kind of free.
I examine how the killing of a tyrant by foreign powers risks being ...
Advertising
The Temple Filter.
I salute a wearable that helpfully identifies scientific gullibility and naivete from twenty ...
Art
De-Labeling Snobbery.
I receive decanters during Ramzaan and defend label-free hospitality while staying sober (for ...
Advice
10%. 50 days. And a gloat. In uncle mode.
I prescribe protein, planks, and peace because I am an uncle who thinks ...
Activism
Moral science?
I watch a school drop-off and confront the everyday lawlessness people like me ...
Capitalism
Billionaires-in-Waiting.
I dissect why middle-class professionals rush to defend billionaires they will statistically never ...
Advice
A matter of honour.
I publicly challenge a highly decorated and patriotic soldier to clarify a claim ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
Books
Free hand or cowardice?
I examine how the same sentence from a politician can signal courage or ...
