Author: Dr. Jaimine Vaishnav

The Audit We Promise After Every Building Falls Down

Delhi
A five-storey building in Satya Niketan fell on a Sunday afternoon. It had been under renovation for months, reopened to tenants in August 2026 with the work still unfinished, and stood on a basement reportedly weakened...

What Ancient Bharat Understood About Faith That Many Hindus Today Have Forgotten

Religion & Culture
There is a verse in the Rig Veda, in the Nasadiya Sukta, the Hymn of Creation, that ends not with a declaration but with a shrug. After asking who really created the universe, the poet says...
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Mumbai

Mumbai Is Nepal’s Future: Just With the Floods Coming From the Other Direction

Environment
On the morning of 26 August 2026, a stretch of the Trishuli River in central Nepal simply stopped behaving like a river. A section...

Why India’s Workplaces Keep Failing the Women They Promised to Protect

Gender Equality
13 years after Parliament passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, an uncomfortable question refuses to go...

The ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Nobody in Parliament Wants to Mention

Education
India loves to call itself the world's fastest growing large economy. It loves the phrase "demographic dividend" even more. But a recent NITI Aayog...

India Cannot Become a $5 Trillion Economy by Treating Informal Workers as Invisible

Business
India wants to be a $5 trillion economy. Every budget speech repeats the number. Every investor deck has a slide on it. What almost...

Subsidised to Sickness: How Indian Food Policy Built a Health Crisis

Health
India has built an entire civilisation on the argument that we know our bodies better than anyone else. Grandmothers know. WhatsApp forwards know. The...

Why a Booming Book Market Does Not Mean India Reads More

Education
There is a particular sound that libraries used to make. It was not silence, not exactly. It was the sound of pages turning, chairs...

India’s Two-Track Education System Is No Accident

Education
In the winter of 2023, a government primary school in a tribal block of Madhya Pradesh shut its gates for the last time. There...

China’s 17 Minutes That Could Change Global Energy Forever

World
Walk through any conversation about the 21st century and someone will eventually say it belongs to Asia. Fair enough. But strip away the sentimentality...

Mainstream TV Media Has Lost the Plot. The Cockroaches Have Won

Politics
I watched something remarkable happen this June and July. Thousands of Gen Z protesters, wearing cockroach masks, gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi under...

Antonio Gramsci Was Right About Indian Media Before Anyone Noticed

National News
There is a certain theatre to Indian mainstream media today. Anchors shout so that no one has to think. Panels are arranged so that disagreement looks...

Why India’s Best Minds Are Fleeing the Teaching Profession

Education
India likes to call itself a nation on the rise, a young country with the world's largest pool of college going students, a country...

Pakistan’s Silent Civil War Is Louder Than Its Cricket Team

World
Pakistan was built on one idea. Religion would hold together a country that geography, language and ethnicity never agreed to hold together. 79 years later,...
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