Author: Dr. Jaimine Vaishnav

The Republic of Excuses

Politics
There is a peculiar new sport sweeping across Indian drawing rooms, WhatsApp groups, and comment sections. It requires no physical fitness, no intellectual preparation, and absolutely no connection to reality. The sport is called “Defending The...

We Were Invited to the Table After the Menu Had Already Been Decided

World
I remember the precise moment I first encountered the full weight of globalisation's contradiction. It was sometime in the early 2000s, standing in front of a newly opened ATM on a street in Mumbai that had,...
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What Happens When a Nation Mass-Producing Degrees Runs Out of Jobs

Education
India is in the middle of a peculiar celebration. In November 2023, the University Grants Commission (UGC) finalised regulations allowing foreign universities ranked in the...

Why Religion Often Triumphs Over Economics in Today’s India

Politics
In recent years, Indian politics has witnessed a significant shift in how Hindu identity is mobilized. What began as a movement largely associated with...

If India is a “democracy”, why are professionals calculating the risk before they speak

Opinions
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a dinner table when someone almost says something political. You can feel it. The...

China Is Hoarding Dollars to Bury America

World
There is a particular kind of threat that does not announce itself. It does not rattle sabres or send diplomatic cables. It moves quietly...

4,300 Millionaires Left India Last Year. Nobody Wants to Talk About It

Lifestyle
Every year, roughly 2.5 million Indians pack their bags and leave. Some go for a graduate degree. Some go for a job offer they...

The Islands India Ignored for 70 Years Are Now Its Most Strategic Asset

Defence
There is a string of islands sitting roughly 1,200 kilometres southeast of the Indian mainland, deep in the Bay of Bengal. They are Indian...

The Island in the Crosshairs: Is the US Coming for Cuba, After Iran

World
90 miles. That is the distance between the Florida Keys and the Cuban coastline. In geopolitical terms, it is almost nothing — a puddle...

Elections as Auctions: How India’s Subsidy Culture is Bankrupting the Middle Class

Politics
Every 5 years, something remarkable happens across India's half a billion voting constituencies. Politicians stop pretending to govern and begin, openly and without embarrassment,...

The Day the Taxi Cartel Lost Control of the Road

Transport
There is a famous idea in economics called the seen and the unseen. When you look at a kaali peeli taxi refusing to run...

The Strait That Prints Money: Inside the Hidden Economics of Hormuz

World
There is a version of the Strait of Hormuz story that you have already been told. It goes something like this: Iran, a belligerent...

The Unfinished Republic: B.R. Ambedkar at 135

National News
There are anniversaries that demand more than commemoration. The 135th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is one of them. Across India today, his...

Why 70,000 Mental Health Professionals Signed a Letter Warning the World About Donald Trump

Politics
There has never been a political figure in modern history who has kept psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals quite so busy — and...
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