Activism
Moral science?
I watch a school drop-off and confront the everyday lawlessness people like me ...
Advice
A matter of honour.
I publicly challenge a highly decorated and patriotic soldier to clarify a claim ...
Books
Free hand or cowardice?
I examine how the same sentence from a politician can signal courage or ...
Activism
A letter to Mr Hardeep Puri.
I write a letter about the arrogance of claiming to speak for an ...
Aviation
Who wants to be a politician?
When the news of Ajit Pawar's death came in, I realised my first ...
Activism
The devil and his due.
Finally, something the Modi sarkar did right. And what an amazing job it ...
Adventure
Project Republic.
For this Republic Day, I am trying to listen and understand what makes ...
Activism
Beware false victory.
I fear Modi’s fall if it comes by foreign hands, because that would ...
Activism
“Siachen pe hamare jawan…”
I am disturbed by how we now reject real soldiers’ stories while embracing ...
Civilisation
Stories We Choose: Why Ikkis Matters
I argue that the stories we choose to celebrate reveal who we are, ...
Civilisation
The Punjabi and the Englishman
I think I am watching the BJP slowly discover that ruling India means ...
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
The Right Wing’s Greatest Coup?
I examine why we demand retributive justice in our fantasies yet excuse political ...
Commentary
Utha Le Re Baba!
I confess that Maharashtra politics now feels like a shared hallucination I can ...
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, ...
