There's a peculiar ritual that plays out every summer across India. Families gather. Relatives who haven't spoken in years suddenly have opinions. Mithai is distributed. A child has passed their exams and earned a degree. The...
It is 5:30 in the morning in Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi. The tea stalls have just lit their first flames. Young men and women, most of them in their mid-20s, a few nudging 30, file into coaching...
There is something almost Kafkaesque about the scene that played out on March 5, 2026. The United States Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, posted on...
There is a particular species of cruelty that schoolteachers in small Indian cities practised in the 1990s with an almost artistic commitment. It was...
Arunachal Pradesh, often called India's "Land of the Rising Sun," stretches across the eastern Himalayas like a verdant sentinel. This northeastern state, home to...
There is something quietly unsettling about watching a classroom full of eager young minds rehearse presentations on disruption — slides polished, vocabulary borrowed from...
The political transition marked by Bangladesh’s general election of 12 February, 2026, represents not merely a change of government, but a broader moment of...
In a modest engineering college in rural Maharashtra, a third-year student named Arjun spends his nights hunched over a laptop, cobbling together a generative...
In 2017-18, I did something that surprised even myself. I spray-painted 3 words on a public wall: #TaxationIsTheft. The media covered it, and surprisingly,...
There's a particular kind of nausea that comes from reading the Epstein files. Not just from the allegations themselves—though those are stomach-turning enough—but from...
