Commentary
To Kymaia: The Indian Prayer
Dear Kymaia, You would notice that your birthday falls within a fortnight of ...
Activism
The Constitution of India. And Indian society.
I am angry at those that think the Constitution of India is some ...
Commentary
The confusion of being a Pro-Life liberal in India.
Many years ago, when I first came across the ‘Pro-Life’ v/s the ‘Pro-Choice’ ...
Commentary
Akashvani…
I ask how a song supposedly suppressed by Congress became something generations of ...
Commentary
Patriotism.
I ask what patriotism means when nationalism demands that lawyers, doctors, scholars, and ...
Commentary
A tryst, betrayed.
I compare two Independence Day voices and ask what their distance reveals about ...
Commentary
Self-goal as strategy.
I argue that India keeps mistaking tactical political cleverness for strategy, despite history ...
Activism
Sharmaji ka Beta vs Ors.
For nearly a fortnight, the group had been locked. The administrators had switched ...
AI
Things to burn. Stories to tell.
A radio interview prompts me to write a sweeping history of human civilisation ...
AI
Raw Material
I realise artificial intelligence has recreated the logic of colonialism, and ask why ...
Commentary
The Sane Person’s Guide to the CJP
I examine a viral political movement, separate evidence from paranoia, and ask what ...
Activism
Punishment for disagreement.
When did disagreement stop demanding intellectual argument, logic, and rhetoric and start insisting ...
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 ...
Commentary
Roman Holiday?
A republic begins to decay when rulers demand sacrifice from citizens whilst performing ...
Activism
My Lords. And Masters?
In a republic, judges are supposed to command respect through reasoning, not demand ...
Commentary
The fall of a civilisation.
I look at Rome’s decline from a millennium and a half ago and ...
