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 ...
Activism
Moral science?
I watch a school drop-off and confront the everyday lawlessness people like me ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
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 ...
Activism
“Siachen pe hamare jawan…”
I am disturbed by how we now reject real soldiers’ stories while embracing ...
Caste
The LIIT of Indianness
I argue that equating Hinduness with Indianness seduces us into purity politics that ...
Activism
The Right Wing’s Greatest Coup?
I examine why we demand retributive justice in our fantasies yet excuse political ...
Activism
Laughing in Nirbhaya.
Why waiting for foreign scandals to topple authoritarianism is political fantasy, not resistance, ...
Commentary
The drop. And the fall.
A parable about power, vanity, and why public moral lapses cannot be erased ...
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
Shaking my head. Again.
When belief devours judgement and citizens hollow themselves out, no bribe is needed ...
Activism
Shaking my head.
A republic where power is pampered and truth is scolded reveals its deepest ...
Bias
What do I know anyway?
I write about privilege, uncertainty, and why knowing less than we think may ...
