Logic
मान न मान मैं तेरा मेहमान!
People (especially the Israelis and Americans) blaming Egypt for closing its doors to ...
Insight
Fitness, health, and appearance.
Appearance is often confused with fitness and/or health. These three concepts, while interlinked, ...
History
The problem of self-appointed spokespersons.
Self-appointed guardians are seldom, if at all, guardians of anyone or anything except ...
Question
The fallacy of the ‘Proud Nationalists’.
What exactly are today's 'Proud Nationalists' proud about? Or even nationalist about? Which ...
Pseudoscience
E=mc² + AI, anyone?
It is tragic that such an ancient and glorious civilisation as India is ...
Atheism
‘Why don’t you mock Islam or Christianity?’
The only 'retort' theists (mainly Hindus, in my case) seem to have to ...
History
The Taj. And Newton.
We Indians need to realise that the West had started overtaking us a ...
Society
If money was no object…
I love hypothetical questions. But a recent one on Twitter about money being ...
Empathy
Social media. Icebergs. Elephants. And nuclear bombs.
I realise that the haste in which we bestow the status of a ...
Bias
The self-delusion of smart people.
Smart people have a disadvantage when it comes to stupid life decisions: They ...
Caste
The garib Brahmin and the Ivy League.
The myth of the 'garib Brahmin' and how reservations are the cause of ...
Politics
Jaishankar, his son, and digital India.
Dr S Jaishankar, Indian Minister of External Affairs, gave a humorous speech ...
Vanity
Live the shallow life? Only on the surface!
Living the shallow life to mock my vanity is one thing, and mistaking ...
Social Media
In which I answer my critics.
I have been accused recently of two charges: Of creating drama and of ...
Prediction/Forecast
Agniveer, The Officer’s Choice Edition. Coming soon.
The Agniveer scheme is more about saving a bankrupt government than true military ...
Expertise/Professionalism
‘Experter’ than the experts.
This government seems to think no one but them knows about things, even ...
