Activism
Winds of change?
RW WhatsApp Uncles are slowly turning anti-Modi, not overtly, but subtly. I try ...
Activism
Kehna kya chahte ho?
The lawyers and judges are the new Brahmins, the high priests and priestesses ...
Activism
From one Brahmin to another.
I write to Brahmins like me about the safety of privilege, and how ...
Caste
My last word on Sudha and her spoon.
Sudha Murthy, in her quest to get (either herself or her equally bigoted ...
Activism
‘Why don’t you mock Islam or Christianity?’
The only 'retort' theists (mainly Hindus, in my case) seem to have to ...
Activism
We are all Mishrajis.
We Indians, and specifically privileged Indians, severely lack empathy.
Advice
The garib Brahmin and the Ivy League.
The myth of the 'garib Brahmin' and how reservations are the cause of ...
Art
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Anger
Stockholm Syndrome and us.
What is lacking in Indian society is for the oppressed classes to see ...
Caste
A single wish.
On India's independence day, we must also introspect on the millions who are ...
Caste
One generation, one inheritance, anyone?
The upper castes protesting reservations because they know some lower caste with a ...
Art
The real khatra to Hinduism.
The recent controversy on a film poster on which Kaali is shown smoking ...
Advice
Caste at Google.
Apparently, highly educated, highly paid employees at Google think that caste is something ...
Beauty
Morning Ride to Koregaon Bhima.
I dropped Kym off at Bund Garden with her team and took off ...
Advice
The oppressed and their leadership.
Standing with and empathising with the oppressed does not automatically translate into liking, ...
Bias
Privilege and salaries.
The insistence of early-stage investors that founders take no salary (or so little ...
