He lost an arm to criminals, his case to the thana, and his dignity at its gate. An essay on the police system India inherited and never reformed.
The Collector still collects, and the saheb still presides. Why the machinery Macaulay built survives in free Bharat, and what it would take to reforge it.
Long before any border was surveyed, a civilisation had already decided what it was. Many maps have been drawn across these millennia; not one of them ever managed to contain Bharat.
A nation that outsources its intellectual framework to foreign universities, foreign journals, and foreign standards of excellence will always speak in a borrowed accent
India is about to urbanise faster than its cities can bear. The way through may not be better leaders, but a formula — rules that hold regardless of who governs
Unity in diversity is what we have read and heard all our lives whenever the discussion is about Bharat and its culture and the civilisation. Most countries in…
From Kurukshetra to the hashtag, propaganda has always been an instrument. What matters is not whether it exists, but who wields it and to what end.
In recent months, a quiet but telling shift has begun inside India’s corridors of power. Several ministries have started migrating their official communication systems to Zoho Mail- a…
Every time Donald Trump makes a policy decision, our opposition parties rush to blame Modi, hoping to score some quick political brownie points. But time and again, it…
For Pakistan, the idea of conquering India is not a political goal but a divinely sanctioned mission, a continuation of the medieval invasions that sought to destroy everything the ancient Hindu civilisation held sacred
The Indian education system has long been debated due to its many shortcomings. While the country boasts a rich academic heritage and produces some of the world’s best…
There are two things, one is the word and the other is its meaning. ‘Education’ is a word everyone uses with a certain meaning attached to it, a…
Travel! Travel! Travel! that’s what everyone is shouting these days, especially in the times of social media, where every other Instagram story is about how someone is living…
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