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 ...
Democracy
UP results and the people’s verdict.
People get the government they deserve. And the recent results from what seem ...
Democracy
Politics and the military: A contrast in two videos.
The separation of military and political matters is the hallmark of a functioning ...
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 ...
Right Wing
Who’s your daddy?
The Hindu nationalists are coming in their pants thinking of Putin's war. Is ...
Question
The NSE imbroglio: Curiouser and curiouser.
How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...
Woo
How kooky is kooky, really?
How is a decision-maker of a private entity believing that she needs to ...
Logic
How can you tell?
When religious people speak of 'superstition', how really can they tell the difference ...
Feminism
Intersectionality in Udupi.
There is intersectionality in the hijab-in-school issue with male Hindu students sloganeering and ...
Culture
The Indian love for spectacle.
Why is everything a 'festival' in India? One may mourn a loss without ...
Morality
Tone policing and context.
There's a difference between being angry at a system and railing against it ...
Health
News Flash – We are positive.
The entire bear family tests positive for Covid and is quarantined for the ...
News
We’re positive.
Kymaia tests positive for Covid. She seems asymptomatic for most purposes, but we'd ...
Photograph
And the 5th tooth is down for the count.
Just a photograph to record the recent falling our 5th tooth. We are ...
Advice
Lectures on Press Freedom from the USA and other curiosities.
High-sounding talk of press freedom, democracy, freedom of speech, and other such moral ...
