Anger
The pickpocket. And my sanity.
I examine the moment when the pickpocket is predictable, the police are fallible, ...
Advice
Teaching Thought Itself.
I argue that our schools teach content but fail to teach children how ...
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 ...
Advertising
The Temple Filter.
I salute a wearable that helpfully identifies scientific gullibility and naivete from twenty ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aviation
Who wants to be a politician?
When the news of Ajit Pawar's death came in, I realised my first ...
Advice
Rules-based international order? Ha!
The rules-based international order died when Hind Rijab was killed. This moral panic ...
Civilisation
Stories We Choose: Why Ikkis Matters
I argue that the stories we choose to celebrate reveal who we are, ...
Civilisation
Dahine se…tez bhaag!
I argue that when fear overwhelms courage, moral collapse often disguises itself as ...
Activism
The Right Wing’s Greatest Coup?
I examine why we demand retributive justice in our fantasies yet excuse political ...
Atheism
The Wrong Question, Again!
Why debates about God’s existence are intellectually exhausted, and which questions about belief, ...
Commentary
The drop. And the fall.
A parable about power, vanity, and why public moral lapses cannot be erased ...
Activism
Part III – The Sacred Text and the Unready People
India’s democracy survives not by habit, but by faith in a Constitution its ...
Activism
To My Fellow Brahmins.
I, a Puneri Brahmin, write to my own, about caste, history, comfort, and ...
