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 ...
Capitalism
Billionaires-in-Waiting.
I dissect why middle-class professionals rush to defend billionaires they will statistically never ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
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 ...
Anger
Muddying the waters.
I believe the Epstein spectacle is designed to make everyone seem guilty so ...
Aviation
Who wants to be a politician?
When the news of Ajit Pawar's death came in, I realised my first ...
Commentary
The Chinese curse.
I explore the concept of big power coercion in global politics and how ...
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
The Punjabi and the Englishman
I think I am watching the BJP slowly discover that ruling India means ...
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 ...
Civilisation
Lessons in History
I am arguing that history punishes societies that mistake restraint for wisdom and ...
Activism
Laughing in Nirbhaya.
Why waiting for foreign scandals to topple authoritarianism is political fantasy, not resistance, ...
