Adventure
Insaan ke bacche.
I watch humanity reach the Moon and murder its own children, and wonder, ...
AI
A Sci-Fi Present
I marvel at the science-fiction present surrounding me while confronting how little humanity’s ...
Activism
The Idea of a Republic.
I reflect on how a republic survives not through identity or doctrine, but ...
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 ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
Adventure
Project Republic.
For this Republic Day, I am trying to listen and understand what makes ...
Civilisation
Stories We Choose: Why Ikkis Matters
I argue that the stories we choose to celebrate reveal who we are, ...
Civilisation
The Punjabi and the Englishman
I think I am watching the BJP slowly discover that ruling India means ...
Civilisation
Dahine se…tez bhaag!
I argue that when fear overwhelms courage, moral collapse often disguises itself as ...
Caste
The LIIT of Indianness
I argue that equating Hinduness with Indianness seduces us into purity politics that ...
Civilisation
Lessons in History
I am arguing that history punishes societies that mistake restraint for wisdom and ...
Activism
To My Fellow Brahmins.
I, a Puneri Brahmin, write to my own, about caste, history, comfort, and ...
Activism
The Dermatographia Test.
Caste isn’t a relic; it erupts instantly. Just open any caste post, read ...
Activism
The Savarna Delusion.
I write about how savarna reactions to satire expose a deeper delusion about ...
Activism
The End of Reservations?
I write about how a Dalit with an iPhone exposed the savarna fantasy ...
Caste
Part II – The Fault in Our Foundations
In this second of a three-part series, I explore how India built a ...
