Politics

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Stereotyping dissidents

Jordan Peterson, “controversial” clinical psychologist A recent interview of Jordan B Peterson, a clinical psychologist on Channel 4 news...

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...

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...

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”....

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...

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...

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...