Art
De-Labeling Snobbery.
I receive decanters during Ramzaan and defend label-free hospitality while staying sober (for ...
Advice
10%. 50 days. And a gloat. In uncle mode.
I prescribe protein, planks, and peace because I am an uncle who thinks ...
Activism
Moral science?
I watch a school drop-off and confront the everyday lawlessness people like me ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
Anger
Muddying the waters.
I believe the Epstein spectacle is designed to make everyone seem guilty so ...
Caste
The LIIT of Indianness
I argue that equating Hinduness with Indianness seduces us into purity politics that ...
Activism
The Right Wing’s Greatest Coup?
I examine why we demand retributive justice in our fantasies yet excuse political ...
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 ...
Activism
The Dermatographia Test.
Caste isn’t a relic; it erupts instantly. Just open any caste post, read ...
Activism
The Savarna Delusion.
I write about how savarna reactions to satire expose a deeper delusion about ...
Activism
The End of Reservations?
I write about how a Dalit with an iPhone exposed the savarna fantasy ...
Caste
Part II – The Fault in Our Foundations
In this second of a three-part series, I explore how India built a ...
Activism
The river that is India.
I trace why the Congress survives every attack: because India itself is a ...
Bias
What do I know anyway?
I write about privilege, uncertainty, and why knowing less than we think may ...
Caste
The Model: Success Without Noise.
I trace how Indians abroad first rose to become the world’s so-called “model ...
Beauty
A meal fit for the Peshwa
I draw from my family history of using, well, history to praise food ...
Art
Whose Story?
A Muslim child’s question during a Marathi lesson made me confront whose metaphors ...
