Author: Dr. Jaimine Vaishnav

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,...

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...

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...