Author: Dr. Jaimine Vaishnav

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 were no protests, no headlines, no ministerial statement. A teacher locked the...

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 and ask a harder question: which Asian power is actually building the...
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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,...

India Wants Singapore’s Passport Rank With Vietnam Tarmac Behaviour

World
For a country that likes to describe itself as a rising power, India's passport tells a strange story. In 2006, the Indian passport stood...

Who Really Profits When Indian Traders and Investors Lose ₹1 Lakh Crore

Business
India likes to tell itself a story. The story goes like this: we are the fastest growing large economy in the world, our stock market...

Every Forced Hug at a Family Party Teaches a Child to Stay Quiet

Crime
I want to start with a number that should stop every reader in their tracks. In 2024, India registered 187,702 crimes against children, an...

Entrepreneurs, Not Exams, Will Save India’s Next Decade

Business
On 26 January 2022, a group of young men in Gaya, Bihar, set a passenger train on fire. Over the next 3 days, similar...

42.6%; Employability Number India Doesn’t Want to Talk About

Education
Sanskrit shlokas and samosas at convocation will not fix what is broken. India worships Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, with genuine devotion every Vasant Panchami,...

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,...

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...

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...
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