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 ...
Art
De-Labeling Snobbery.
I receive decanters during Ramzaan and defend label-free hospitality while staying sober (for ...
Advice
A matter of honour.
I publicly challenge a highly decorated and patriotic soldier to clarify a claim ...
Activism
A letter to Mr Hardeep Puri.
I write a letter about the arrogance of claiming to speak for an ...
Advice
Rules-based international order? Ha!
The rules-based international order died when Hind Rijab was killed. This moral panic ...
Civilisation
Stories We Choose: Why Ikkis Matters
I argue that the stories we choose to celebrate reveal who we are, ...
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 ...
Activism
Is There a List?
What must be undone when constitutional sanity returns, and why accountability, not amnesia, ...
Atheism
The Wrong Question, Again!
Why debates about God’s existence are intellectually exhausted, and which questions about belief, ...
Activism
Laughing in Nirbhaya.
Why waiting for foreign scandals to topple authoritarianism is political fantasy, not resistance, ...
Culture
Ek hi Netaji!
I think we have finally discovered that history’s greatest mistake was happening before ...
Activism
Part III – The Sacred Text and the Unready People
India’s democracy survives not by habit, but by faith in a Constitution its ...
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 ...
Activism
A Rebuttal to Aarnab Mitra
I rebutt wilful misreadings and explore our fascination with cult leaders, and how ...
