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I am moving away from Substack
As many of you know, I left Instagram a few months ago.
Apr 12, 2025
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Hindutva theatre and the facade of equality
Can the foundation of an equal future be laid on top of an unequal past?
Apr 10, 2025
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How the 'spiritual' label holds India back
Consider for a moment, that we are extremely materialistic in very tangible ways.
Apr 8, 2025
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What negationists mean by positivity
Smiling as you look at terrible things is not positivity. It is a disgraceful capitulation in the face of tone-policing.
Apr 4, 2025
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We Become the Entertainment We Consume
Audiences don't mature by themselves. They need to be guided with responsible storytelling.
Apr 3, 2025
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Be Like Vibheeshan
The moral hero objects to wrongs happening around him, even if he has no divine weapons or armies.
Apr 2, 2025
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How the Myth of Merit Upholds Caste Privilege
How savarna middle India justifies its luck and privilege as the result of hard work and nothing else.
Apr 1, 2025
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March 2025
The Myth of Hindu Blood Purity
We are all impure. The sooner we learn to appreciate this obvious fact, the better.
Mar 31, 2025
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The Failure of RW Imaginations
The feeble conceptual frameworks that underlie the reactionary RW machine are doomed to fail because they have nothing to do with reality.
Mar 29, 2025
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The Songs of the North
An aspect of the language debate that many of us don't often consider.
Mar 28, 2025
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The magical woman, debunked
How come the drift of so much superstition is plain old misogyny?
Mar 27, 2025
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Who needs change anyway?
The problem with the 'we are all in this together' narrative is that it doesn't take into account the different impacts the status quo has on different…
Mar 26, 2025
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