Dismantling Global Hindutva conference In these past few days, we have heard tell of a conference being held in several universities in the US. It was called Dismantling Global Hindutva. Now, this was obviously going to be entirely different than any scientific or technological conference. This was a political conference, though strangely still academic…

One of the hazards of an existence of social media is that you are exposed to a huge number of what are known as “hot takes”. These are controversial opinions, often to elicit a reaction from a particular group of people than making a coherent point about any topic. …

In the previous monologues on the podcast, I had spoken about some values and principles that I find to be foundational in the modern social and personal life, at least in my view. Free speech is the most basic principle that is public in nature that I say we must…

I was, as usual, languishing on our favourite social media website. No, not Tinder, Twitter. And that is when I came across a tweet, which read something like this. “Journalism in India is losing credibility not just because it refuses to hold those in power accountable but because it is…

College is usually a time where people actually experience the “real world” for the first time, in many ways. We learn how to deal with new people, esp from different backgrounds, as opposed to school, where schoolmates are from the same town or neighbourhood. We learn how to set up…

Today, I want to talk about something very close to me, at length. If you follow me on Twitter, you might know I never shut up about it. It is free speech. It is the freedom of individuals to speak without fear of repercussions from the government. More broadly, this…

The Terror Attacks The recent news from Paris, that of the beheading of a school teacher, dubbed as a terrorist attack by the French President, has shaken the world. It is one of the many instances in recent history where we have seen violence after blasphemous utterances, overwhelmingly overrepresented among the attackers being…

“What does Bilkis Dadi’s place among TIME Magazine’s list of Top 100Most Influential People mean for the Shaheen Bagh movement and the future of democratic resistance in India?” …

Nature’s call I recently came across a friend’s Instagram story, in which, he had posed with a friend of his, who was holding a placard that said “Today, it is Amazon. Tomorrow it may be Aarey. Later it can be Himayat Bagh.” …