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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....
May 29, 20203 min read
China: A paper tiger? [Guest Post]
China has recently heightened its rhetoric against Taiwan and has moved against Hong Kong’s autonomy, while initiating a standoff against...
Jun 3, 20178 min read
The case against “The case against abolitionists”
Or alternatively, “An abolitionist’s case against triple talaq”/a response article to an article advocating the retention of...
May 27, 20172 min read
No beef hasn’t been banned.
The recent notification by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has run into controversy as it restricts the sale of...
Apr 24, 20174 min read
No easy fights
Some perspective & opinion in the aftermath of the Sukma Encounter: The way forward and what can be done. “They were around 300 & we were...
Apr 23, 20173 min read
Journalism, Ethics and the Media.
Some thoughts on a recent non-disclosure by a leading Newspaper and the reaction of the Journalist in question on Social Media. A...
Apr 15, 20173 min read
Sedition,Tweets and journalism.
Some thoughts on the recent “controversy” Gautam Gambhir’s tweet. The tweet in question: The reaction to this tweet by journalists in the...
Apr 13, 20172 min read
How the Chhit is funded
Since The Wire has transparently displayed their source of funding, I have decided to do the same for my Blog: The Foundation for...
Apr 9, 20174 min read
What you think is not the last word on things.
Written in response to “The cow is not our mother, Hindutva means nothing to us”: A devout and ‘proud’ Malayali Hindu” This article was...
Mar 29, 20173 min read
A welcome break for Kerala
The Transport Minister of Kerala Shri A.K. Saseendran resigned on Sunday, just hours after a newly launched private channel aired an...
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 24, 20174 min read
Reviewing Public Sector Employment in Kerala
The Public Sector is no longer the primary employer in the organized sector. I had written an article on Swarajya almost a month ago,...
Mar 18, 20173 min read
Explaining Electoral Success
The UP Electoral results have shown how unreliable and partisan Political Journalism is. To rely on ex-post facto judgments of Why BJP...
Dec 20, 20163 min read
A tribute to the Cholas :An Introduction A little over 10 months ago, I published a small article…
A tribute to the Cholas :An Introduction A little over 10 months ago, I published a small article called The Lost History about how many...