AI
Writer’s Block. Again.
I wrestle with a blank page, scrolling through noise, wondering (fearing?) my writing ...
Activism
Part Three: Violence. And Us.
I reject mob uprisings and choose Gandhi’s Satyagraha: non-violence, institutions, and love as ...
Anger
Part Two: Violence. And Them.
I turn outward, examining Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the Arab Spring, uneasy ...
Anger
Part One: Violence. And Me.
I trace my lifelong unease with violence, from Babri Masjid to despots’ deaths, ...
Beauty
A meal fit for the Peshwa
I draw from my family history of using, well, history to praise food ...
Bias
Hindsight and Nehru.
Born 1972, I still knew freedom fighters. Nehru, born 1886 and scarred by ...
Commentary
The Company We Keep
I list out the countries (and their leaders) that India (through its PM, ...
Commentary
Lost Without Reading the Map
Even as a Nehruvian, I see how his moral foreign policy failed. And ...
Art
Whose Story?
A Muslim child’s question during a Marathi lesson made me confront whose metaphors ...
Advice
Bharat, That Is Us.
On Independence Day, I remind my fellow Indians as to who 'Bharat Mata' ...
Activism
The Price of Survival.
I once mistook our endurance for strength, but learned it fuels our subjugation; ...
Commentary
Why Military Tradition ≠ Civilian Tradition.
A friend mentioned that all protocols are subject to change, even military ones, ...
Advice
Could we please not, General?
I write to the Chief about his recent press pictures hugging his Australian ...
Business
The Dumbest Man In The Room.
I’m grateful for a friend who lives by hiring smarter people, paying them ...
Activism
Incredible India. Literally.
I witnessed a starving child perform for coins, surrounded by symbols of progress, ...
Abhijit Gadgil
A Matter of Honour (and a Few Corrections).
In which I correct key errors in Akash Banerjee’s MiG-21 video that featured ...
