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Apr 17, 202311 min read
Tharoor's Kerala Jaunt: A Fool's Errand or A Pragmatic Choice?
Shashi Tharoor wants to become Kerala's Chief Minister. Will Congress hand him the mantle? When Shashi Tharoor entered politics in Kerala...
Feb 24, 20215 min read
Why we should dissolve Puducherry
It makes little sense to continue administering a three pronged entity tied together by a vague “French” cultural identity. V....
Jan 7, 20215 min read
Neopatrimonialism in India: the case of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist notes in his book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’ that many Sub-Saharan African...
Dec 22, 202012 min read
The Great Red Resurgence
An Analysis of the 2020 Kerala Local Body Elections A jubilant Chief Minister Pinrayi Vijayan with other LDF leaders: Communist Party of...
Mar 30, 20193 min read
The level of public discourse in India
It is a by word that gets quoted often, whenever an insolent or uncivil remark is made by a Politician, to say that this is a “new low in...
Jan 19, 20186 min read
Stereotyping dissidents
Jordan Peterson, “controversial” clinical psychologist A recent interview of Jordan B Peterson, a clinical psychologist on Channel 4 news...
Sep 11, 20174 min read
Free Speech: Examination of two recent scenarios
A.K.A. ON Free Speech, Part -II This is the second part, or continuation of an earlier article written titled “On Free Speech” , and is...
Mar 25, 20174 min read
Meat shops, Kebabs and a massacre
Some thoughts on March 23. // A paean to Indian Secularism. On 23 March, 2003, 24 people were lined up and shot, somewhere in India. The...
Mar 12, 20173 min read
A few notes after the BJP clean sweep in Uttar Pradesh
Also known as gloating. This time is one of the very best times to be alive as a Supporter of the BJP, or by extension, non-“liberal”....
Feb 17, 20174 min read
The Liberal World Order, under crisis?
Nopes. Xi Jinping, the new leader of the ‘free world’ The results of the Brexit and the US Elections – combined with the rising tide of...
Feb 16, 20173 min read
Trump is done.
Trump on (his hopefully) secure iPhone. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. Trump’s impeachment is something that everyone is...
Jan 21, 20172 min read
The Legacy of Barack Obama
As 8 years of the Obama Presidency comes to close, I look at his legacy, and what he leaves for Trump & the world at the large. What is...