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- 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....
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- May 29, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 8 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 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 24, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 3 min
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...