‘Secularism’ has officially become a dirty word in India. In a country that is lost and aching, people are slipping deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit of hate and division. Robbed of our aspirations and opportunities or maybe just stoking our deep-seated bigotry, we have become so engrossed in our recreational hate that we… Continue reading Secular, the most dreaded ‘S’ word in India
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The trouble with deification
One of my tattoos quotes a phrase from Virgil’s Aeneid - "Sic itur ad Astra" (Thus one journeys to the stars). Spoken by Apollo, addressing Aeneas’ son Ascanius as he goes to war, the words embody a well-known practice of hero-worshipping and promising fortune in this life or the next in exchange for hard labor… Continue reading The trouble with deification
The human cost of a pandemic
An economy can do without a writer like myself, or a software engineer and such, but it just cannot do without industrial labourers, manufacturers, farmers, construction workers, etc.
India, both tortoise and hare in the EV race
A reason behind the substantial confusion around India's EV strategy could be the fact that the people making actual decisions in this matter have never owned or driven an EV, neither do they know much about the technology.
Elections 2019, what happened?
BJP's divisive formula was so powerful that it managed to send a terror-accused extreme rightwinger to the Parliament, while an Oxford scholar who had single-handedly revolutionized public schools in Delhi lost out.
arguments & agreements 