Consciousness
The Only Question.
The only question worth answering in philosophy is the only question worth asking ...
Commentary
The fall of a civilisation.
I look at Rome’s decline from a millennium and a half ago and ...
Adventure
Insaan ke bacche.
I watch humanity reach the Moon and murder its own children, and wonder, ...
AI
A Sci-Fi Present
I marvel at the science-fiction present surrounding me while confronting how little humanity’s ...
Activism
The Idea of a Republic.
I reflect on how a republic survives not through identity or doctrine, but ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adventure
Project Republic.
For this Republic Day, I am trying to listen and understand what makes ...
Atheism
The Wrong Question, Again!
Why debates about God’s existence are intellectually exhausted, and which questions about belief, ...
Activism
To My Fellow Brahmins.
I, a Puneri Brahmin, write to my own, about caste, history, comfort, and ...
Activism
Shaking my head. Again.
When belief devours judgement and citizens hollow themselves out, no bribe is needed ...
Celebration
Not my circus?
I write about Zohran Mamdani’s win, reluctant pride, and why even cynics sometimes ...
Art
How I hope to sound.
I reflect on a friend’s recommendation, discovering a deeper honesty in writing and ...
Activism
Part Three: Violence. And Us.
I reject mob uprisings and choose Gandhi’s Satyagraha: non-violence, institutions, and love as ...
