Ageing
The Only Possible World.
I follow a murderous thought experiment until it collapses into a meditation on ...
Anger
The pickpocket. And my sanity.
I examine the moment when the pickpocket is predictable, the police are fallible, ...
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 ...
Advertising
The Temple Filter.
I salute a wearable that helpfully identifies scientific gullibility and naivete from twenty ...
Art
De-Labeling Snobbery.
I receive decanters during Ramzaan and defend label-free hospitality while staying sober (for ...
Activism
Moral science?
I watch a school drop-off and confront the everyday lawlessness people like me ...
Capitalism
Billionaires-in-Waiting.
I dissect why middle-class professionals rush to defend billionaires they will statistically never ...
Advice
A matter of honour.
I publicly challenge a highly decorated and patriotic soldier to clarify a claim ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
Books
Free hand or cowardice?
I examine how the same sentence from a politician can signal courage or ...
Activism
A letter to Mr Hardeep Puri.
I write a letter about the arrogance of claiming to speak for an ...
Anger
Muddying the waters.
I believe the Epstein spectacle is designed to make everyone seem guilty so ...
Aviation
Who wants to be a politician?
When the news of Ajit Pawar's death came in, I realised my first ...
Advice
Rules-based international order? Ha!
The rules-based international order died when Hind Rijab was killed. This moral panic ...
Commentary
The Chinese curse.
I explore the concept of big power coercion in global politics and how ...
Activism
“Siachen pe hamare jawan…”
I am disturbed by how we now reject real soldiers’ stories while embracing ...
Civilisation
Stories We Choose: Why Ikkis Matters
I argue that the stories we choose to celebrate reveal who we are, ...
