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- Apr 17
- 11 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 12 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 6 min
Stereotyping dissidents
Jordan Peterson, “controversial” clinical psychologist A recent interview of Jordan B Peterson, a clinical psychologist on Channel 4 news...


- Sep 11, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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...