Author: Dr. Jaimine Vaishnav

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

There is a peculiar new sport sweeping across Indian drawing rooms, WhatsApp groups, and comment sections. It requires no physical fitness, no intellectual preparation,...