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Normalising the Language of Cruelty

India, Feb. 9 -- Let us be real, slurs are nothing uncommon. They have existed since time immemorial, but to justify, propagate and normalise them shamelessly is nothing short of Hitlerian levels of v... Read More


The Mob Becomes the Regulator

India, Jan. 19 -- The classical definition of a human person is that they are rational animals. However, the American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer Robert Anson Heinlein, also kn... Read More


The Illusion of Protection

India, Dec. 29 -- Religious festivals are meant to mark memory, joy, and belonging. In India today, they have become thresholds. Christmas, Easter, and even funerals now arrive with police, court peti... Read More


Scrapping a Lifeline

India, Dec. 22 -- MGNREGA was a covenant the nation made with its poorest citizens. It was a promise of dignified work and not starving due to a lack of it. That promise is now being broken, deliberat... Read More


The Future Rests on a Generation That Must Step Up

India, Dec. 8 -- India's democratic future now rests, more than ever, on the shoulders of its young. This may sound like a familiar refrain, but the circumstances today are sharper and more unforgivin... Read More


The New Architecture of Worker Insecurity

India, Dec. 1 -- Whether or not it is consistent in anything good, though it is consistent in its evil ways, the incumbent government has taken upon itself to consistently accessorise its shenanigans ... Read More


Bihar 2025: A Victory Built on Loopholes, Fear and Freebies

India, Nov. 24 -- Bihar has delivered a result that was less an election and more a demonstration of how power scripts the rules. The NDA has won, yes. But the real story lies in how the field was til... Read More


The Mirror India Refuses to Face

India, Nov. 17 -- The World Day of the Poor arrives each year as an indictment. It calls us to look, without pretence, at a truth we dodge daily: the poor are not the margins of society. They are its ... Read More