Cringe
Laxman and Sonia.
Indians seem to 'celebrate' every win for an Indian-origin leader as somehow vindication ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Dissent/Protest
Caste at Google.
Apparently, highly educated, highly paid employees at Google think that caste is something ...
Society
The American obsession with guns.
Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States to meet ...
Leadership
Japan and the Indian PM.
The Indian PM does not need to invite paid performers to 'welcome' him ...
Communication
Practice makes perfect? I dunno.
Is the inability to say no a trait unique to this subcontinent or ...
International
Can we buy peace?
The total external debt of all our neighbours does not amount to more ...
War/Conflict
The Russo-Ukraine conflict and the international system.
I am surprised (not pleasantly) at how easily the international system collapses and ...
Debate
Kashmiri Pandits and their persecution complex.
While I sympathise with the KPs and their plight, their claim that their ...
Humour
Do you believe in God now?
There was a time (in 2018) when Indian and Pakistani embassies used to ...
Fallacy
Your feelings ≠ National pride.
The mistaking of one's personal feelings for a representation of the entire nation's ...
Dissent/Protest
Democracy and war.
How are Russians, under Putin, able to find the courage to protest an ...
Morality
One man’s freedom fighter…
How do you square a national of a third country going to fight ...
Privilege
Chutzpah or Chutiyaapaa?
The astounding confidence that one's privileged position in India gives someone can be ...
Military
A warning. And a prediction.
Arming civilians indiscriminately and encouraging private enterprises to get into improvised weapons manufacturing ...
India
Where would you go to, my lovely?
If a World War III were really to break out, and blocks were ...
Advice
The naughtiest boy and the UN.
The whole myth about the naughtiest boy suddenly becoming a good boy when ...
Advice
Indian self-interest and the Ukraine crisis.
Let us worry about Indian self-interests rather than a European white man's war ...
