Celebration
The wrong kind of free.
I examine how the killing of a tyrant by foreign powers risks being ...
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 ...
Capitalism
Part I – The Soil of Democracy
I write about how democracy slowly took shape in Europe through centuries of ...
Caste
Is Democracy Possible in India?
A late-night question about whether democracy is even possible in India grew into ...
Civilisation
The Myth We Believed.
I trace the rise and unravelling of Indians abroad as a “model minority,” ...
Activism
Part Three: Violence. And Us.
I reject mob uprisings and choose Gandhi’s Satyagraha: non-violence, institutions, and love as ...
Commentary
The Company We Keep
I list out the countries (and their leaders) that India (through its PM, ...
Commentary
Lost Without Reading the Map
Even as a Nehruvian, I see how his moral foreign policy failed. And ...
Activism
Unsettled? Sure. But by what?
American Jews feel “unsettled,” but not by genocide in Gaza. Their silence enables ...
Exploitation/Oppression
Frames of Reference.
I break down global power dynamics, reject moral absolutism, and call out the ...
Commentary
End of an era.
India loses diplomatic agency as the POTUS announces a fragile ceasefire between India ...
Death
Op Sindoor.
When politics, diplomacy, and the military align, briefly and brilliantly, we must rise ...
Advice
A letter to America.
I write a heartfelt letter to America on tariffs, factories, immigration, ambition, and ...
Activism
The Cassandra Curse.
As I read about Punjab's descent into drug-fuelled madness, I wonder if my ...
Civilisation
Can we be unreasonable men?
I write about a fantasy reunification idea, less Akhand Bharat, and more EU. ...
Commentary
Trump’s Tariff Tantrum — Drama, Denial, Damnation.
Donald Trump has started a trade war by announcing penal tariffs on his ...
Activism
The Great Indian Escape Trick.
I write about the latest chatter about how the muscular RW USA is ...
Bias
Exodus (1960): If WTF Was A Movie!
Saw Exodus, the Israeli and Zionist propaganda film from 1960. And was surprised ...
