Democracy
The limits of extreme capitalism.
I write about the win-win deal that Adani has signed with the FCI, ...
Society
Syncretism? Bah!
The way Hindu liberals share Muslims partaking in and co-celebrating Hindu festivals as ...
Leadership
Indian society – Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Today, it no longer matters who is in power in India. It will ...
Debate
NRC: What is the end game?
All the talk of illegal immigrants and the importance of having an NRC ...
Films/Movies
The weaponisation of imagined oppression.
The cringeworthy fishing for sympathy by the Kashmiri Pandits does not behove them, ...
Fallacy
Your feelings ≠ National pride.
The mistaking of one's personal feelings for a representation of the entire nation's ...
Debate
The azaan, loudspeakers, and religion in public life.
My stand on the use of loudspeakers is clear. Either ban them all, ...
Democracy
Politics and the military: A contrast in two videos.
The separation of military and political matters is the hallmark of a functioning ...
Society
Mothers and war.
The problem with the myth that women are somehow more peace-loving than men ...
Hope
We Shall Overcome.
Kymaia learns, and rather likes, the protest song, We Shall Overcome. Maybe it ...
Nostalgia
Age and the (theories of the) Universe.
I remember the currently universally accepted theories of the origin of the Universe ...
Woo
How kooky is kooky, really?
How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...
Commentary
Before and after. The Indian story.
A second-order effect of cheap bandwidth and ease of publishing, sharing, and consuming ...
Democracy
A vote of confidence.
Democracy in India lives on because of the supreme, and sometimes irrational, confidence ...
Fallacy
The ‘Make (Pakistan) in India’ gang.
Neither a hijabi woman is automatically my hero nor a uniformed soldier. My ...
Ideology
Oppression is my enemy.
We must take Periyar's excellent (and practical) advice for calibrating our moral compass ...
Feminism
Intersectionality in Udupi.
There is intersectionality in the hijab-in-school issue with male Hindu students sloganeering and ...
