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 ...
Commentary
Incredible India. Surreal India.
With the world order in flux, India finds itself in a unique position ...
Activism
Snakes. And solidarity.
In which I tell the extremists who believe in violence, and yet, claim ...
Bias
The Myth(?) of Human Rights.
I ruminate about Harari's claims that Human Rights and religion are equally human-made. ...
Activism
Ek hain to safe hain! Indeed.
PM Modi gave the slogan: 'Ek hain to safe hain!' I think we ...
Art
Ambanis as the subaltern.
The Ambanis are the true subalterns, representing the aspirations and sensitivities of the ...
Activism
Round and round.
At the very extremities of the logical conclusion of the world the left ...
Anger
The circular firing squad. Again.
The stark contrast in the response by the Right-wing and the liberals to ...
Democracy
तीतर के दो आगे तीतर…
When faced with a choice of perpetuating or dismantling a system of oppression ...
Commentary
The Gabbar Singh strategy.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create ...
Commentary
Left-Right-Left-Right
Being the centrist liberal is harder work than it seems prima facie. One ...
Civilisation
Mothers and war.
The problem with the myth that women are somehow more peace-loving than men ...
Art
We Shall Overcome.
Kymaia learns, and rather likes, the protest song, We Shall Overcome. Maybe it ...
