Bias
What do I know anyway?
I write about privilege, uncertainty, and why knowing less than we think may ...
Business
Stars. Screens. And Suckers.
I write about astrology apps, the Forer effect, and how superstition has rebranded ...
Advertising
Sell. Me. The. Damn. Features.
I write about why I no longer trust marketing feelings & emotional over ...
Caste
Is Democracy Possible in India?
A late-night question about whether democracy is even possible in India grew into ...
Celebration
Not my circus?
I write about Zohran Mamdani’s win, reluctant pride, and why even cynics sometimes ...
Civilisation
The Nation of Angry Sons?
I write about how our politics of obedience begins at home, with fathers ...
Anger
Velankar, Abhimanyu, and Sisyphus.
I write about the moral fatigue of Indian heroes, from Velankar to Sisyphus, ...
Civilisation
The National Treasury (of Outrage).
I write on how a woman’s outfit sparked outrage and revealed the true ...
Civilisation
The Orchestra: Success Beyond Noise.
I explore how the Indian diaspora, after noise and pride, may finally grow ...
Civilisation
The Cacophony: Noise Without Success.
I trace how the once-silent Indian diaspora found its voice, mistook noise for ...
Commentary
Benevolent delusions.
I examine our fondness for lost eras and strongmen, and the arrogance buried ...
Advertising
The Seller & The Believer.
I reflect on Piyush Pandey’s dazzling craft and the moral difference between selling ...
Bureaucracy
The burden of proof.
I examine how the Indian state sustains power not by violence or ideology, ...
Caste
The Model: Success Without Noise.
I trace how Indians abroad first rose to become the world’s so-called “model ...
Art
How I hope to sound.
I reflect on a friend’s recommendation, discovering a deeper honesty in writing and ...
Activism
Why. Doesn’t. He. Die?
I question the RSS’s selective reverence for Gandhi, exposing the irony of those ...
Activism
Psst! Did you know that Gandhi…?
On Gandhi’s birth anniversary, I defend the strategist and organiser, not the caricature, ...
Activism
Handshakes and operations.
I wonder why we borrow the Indian Army’s language but forget its code ...
Civilisation
The Myth We Believed.
I trace the rise and unravelling of Indians abroad as a “model minority,” ...
