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Reservations Are Tools For Empowerment Not Appeasement
This was a post I had written for a news website in April 2023. Republishing the same as the online copy is no longer available, and the...
Mar 254 min read

Federalism Elsewhere: Canada's "Nations Within A Nation"
Alberta wants to enact a Sovereignty Act over the hostility and neglect of the Canadian Federal Government. It shows that fundamental...
Dec 29, 20229 min read

The Governor: not a mere lapdog
Or at least not intended as such - An exploration of Article 167 of the Constitution The contentious nature of the relationship between...
Feb 24, 20223 min read

CoWIN: an unheralded success
CoWIN's success as a vaccine management has been crucial in the fight against COVID-19.
Jul 9, 20214 min read


Analysing The “Right to Repair” & India’s Possible Choices
Analysing The “Right to Repair” & India’s Possible Choices in Creating a More Sustainable Electronics Industry
Jul 8, 20218 min read

Ludo, Chappals and more: Why Courts decide on what seems inane
Courts decide on what seem to be inane matters regularly, why? Our Constitutional Courts rightly receive a significant amount of scrutiny...
Jun 7, 20214 min read

Is Twitter going to be banned?
Too Long, Don't Read: NO. For an explanation, Read on. The question of whether or not Twitter is going to be banned or not has dominated...
Jun 5, 20212 min read

Eroom's Law might be broken partially, and that will be a great breakthrough
A few musings on how COVID-19 vaccine development has changed the pharma industry. It’s been a year since the COVID-19 Pandemic broke out...
Apr 29, 20217 min read


Why a Super League? Club football's deal with the devil
12 major European Clubs were going to form their own "super-league". It crashed and burned. An exploration of the reasons behind creation...
Apr 23, 20219 min read


Kerala's struggles with waste management
and the half-hearted efforts by many Urban Local Bodies to combat it. One of the consequences of the great ‘Gulf Boom’ that took millions...
Apr 14, 20215 min read


Courts as Legislatures: It doesn’t work
The Judiciary regularly steps into the domain of the Executive and Legislature, but it’s interference only hampers the common man. The...
Mar 23, 20215 min read

The Question of Cyber Sovereignty
India’s pursuit of cyber sovereignty will likely define the next decade. The ban of Tik Tok along with 59 other Chinese-made applications...
Feb 23, 20218 min read


Unravelling Backdoor appointments, the struggle of PSC rankholders and what ails Kerala Politics
The issue of ‘backdoor appointments’ to government and public sector jobs have animated politics in the state. What is the reality of the...
Feb 20, 20219 min read


Twitter cannot be the arbiter of free speech in India
Some comments on The Hindu Op-Ed published on 15/02/2021 written by Gautham Bhatia about Twitter and Free Speech Rights in India....
Feb 15, 20213 min read


Another Assault on the Tantri, Temple And Tradition.
From An Unknown Utsavam, Credits: Mathrubhumi The inherent dissonance in the State Government(s) running Hindu Religious Institutions and...
Feb 14, 20213 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...
Jan 7, 20215 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...
Dec 22, 202012 min read


Can HR & CE Departments be secular?
No, they cannot. On the recent decision of the Karnataka High Court to dismiss two petitions challenging the appointment of two...
Dec 14, 20204 min read


The Inevitable Death of Two Front Politics in Kerala
K. Karunakaran (UDF) and E.K. Naynar (LDF) who were the scions of the two fronts in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the Assembly elections in...
Dec 12, 20205 min read


Communist Green, Gold and Red
Communist Green (Chromolaena odorata) an invasive plant species, seen in Road sides of Kerala The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has...
Sep 20, 20205 min read