Commentary
Self-goal as strategy.
I argue that India keeps mistaking tactical political cleverness for strategy, despite history ...
Activism
Sorry, Karnataka.
I realise, with growing discomfort, that Maharashtra and Bengal, both exported India’s conscience ...
Activism
The Revolution Will Not Be Memeified.
A meme page is not a movement; India still changes power through booths, ...
Activism
EncRoaching on the liberal vote bank?
A meme page did not create India’s anger; it merely laughed loudly enough ...
Activism
To everything, turn, turn, turn…
I cross the ideological floor in my mind to test whether I truly ...
Advice
An Open Letter to Shehzaad Poonawalla.
I write an honest open letter to a BJP spokesperson who markets belonging ...
Activism
The Last Brahmin Standing.
I mock my own tribe by pretending to crown myself the last pure ...
Adventure
Project Republic.
For this Republic Day, I am trying to listen and understand what makes ...
Activism
“Siachen pe hamare jawan…”
I am disturbed by how we now reject real soldiers’ stories while embracing ...
Civilisation
Stories We Choose: Why Ikkis Matters
I argue that the stories we choose to celebrate reveal who we are, ...
Civilisation
The Punjabi and the Englishman
I think I am watching the BJP slowly discover that ruling India means ...
Civilisation
Dahine se…tez bhaag!
I argue that when fear overwhelms courage, moral collapse often disguises itself as ...
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
Is There a List?
What must be undone when constitutional sanity returns, and why accountability, not amnesia, ...
Civilisation
Lessons in History
I am arguing that history punishes societies that mistake restraint for wisdom and ...
Activism
Laughing in Nirbhaya.
Why waiting for foreign scandals to topple authoritarianism is political fantasy, not resistance, ...
Bureaucracy
Deeply proud. And PAGAL.
A letter of admiration and pride to the PMO-posted IAS officer in charge ...
Culture
Ek hi Netaji!
I think we have finally discovered that history’s greatest mistake was happening before ...
Commentary
The Irony Man of India.
A satire on hindsight patriotism, historical arrogance, and the curious urge to lecture ...
