Anger
Muddying the waters.
I believe the Epstein spectacle is designed to make everyone seem guilty so ...
Activism
The Right Wing’s Greatest Coup?
I examine why we demand retributive justice in our fantasies yet excuse political ...
Activism
Is There a List?
What must be undone when constitutional sanity returns, and why accountability, not amnesia, ...
Activism
Laughing in Nirbhaya.
Why waiting for foreign scandals to topple authoritarianism is political fantasy, not resistance, ...
Activism
To My Fellow Brahmins.
I, a Puneri Brahmin, write to my own, about caste, history, comfort, and ...
Caste
Part II – The Fault in Our Foundations
In this second of a three-part series, I explore how India built a ...
Activism
Shaking my head.
A republic where power is pampered and truth is scolded reveals its deepest ...
Activism
Part Three: Violence. And Us.
I reject mob uprisings and choose Gandhi’s Satyagraha: non-violence, institutions, and love as ...
Anger
Part Two: Violence. And Them.
I turn outward, examining Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the Arab Spring, uneasy ...
Anger
Part One: Violence. And Me.
I trace my lifelong unease with violence, from Babri Masjid to despots’ deaths, ...
Bias
Hindsight and Nehru.
Born 1972, I still knew freedom fighters. Nehru, born 1886 and scarred by ...
Art
Whose Story?
A Muslim child’s question during a Marathi lesson made me confront whose metaphors ...
Abhijit Gadgil
A Matter of Honour (and a Few Corrections).
In which I correct key errors in Akash Banerjee’s MiG-21 video that featured ...
Activism
Unsettled? Sure. But by what?
American Jews feel “unsettled,” but not by genocide in Gaza. Their silence enables ...
Activism
From Gandhi to Guns: How India Lost the Non-Aligned Soul.
I explore how India’s foreign policy abandoned its moral core, trading Gandhian ideals ...
Activism
Onions. And the Indian Express.
I marvel at Indian Express’s bravery, leaping to fact-check Rahul overnight while gently ...
Activism
Victory? For whom?
She wasn’t freed because of her rights, but because she apologised. Stop mistaking ...
Death
Op Sindoor.
When politics, diplomacy, and the military align, briefly and brilliantly, we must rise ...
