An Analysis of the Atrocities Act
The understanding of The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 [Hereinafter referred to as...
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- Jun 12, 2019
- 5 min
The Ever Relevant George Orwell
Last week marked 70 years of the release of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984. Written during the beginning of the Cold War,...
- Jun 11, 2019
- 8 min
Flights Review: Winner of 2018 Man Booker Prize
A quick Google search for the meaning of the word ‘Contuition’ proves utterly unfruitful. I see a handful of search results from random...
- Jun 6, 2019
- 6 min
Black Mirror Season 5: Human All Too Human
Black Mirror’s fifth season was released on Netflix yesterday, with three episodes, to a widely anticipating global audience. The new...
- Jun 4, 2019
- 5 min
At Least they Didn’t Discuss the Weather
Whenever a philosophical and academic furor becomes the object of public attention, opprobrium and excitement, it is the duty of the...
- Jun 3, 2019
- 14 min
The Hindutva Rhetoric: History, Memory and Learnings
The Bharatiya Janata Party has done it again. Led by the popularity of Narendra Modi, it has once again won a majority in the Indian...
- Jun 1, 2019
- 6 min
The Battle of Britain, for European Glory
“When Napoleon lay at Boulogne for a year with his flat-bottomed boats and his Grand Army, he was told by someone, “there are bitter...
- May 31, 2019
- 5 min
Andrew Breitbart’s Hate Machine
The following is a hilarious excerpt from Bob Woordward’s recent book, Fear: Trump in the White House: In August 2010, six years before...
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
How To Write an SOP like Donald Trump
Here is how, in my imagination, Trump would pen his Statement of Purpose for admission into a business school. What is advisable is that...
- May 30, 2019
- 5 min
The TIMEs They-are-a-Changin’
To be fair to TIME Magazine, they, while putting out Aatish Taseer’s ‘Divider-in-Chief’ cover article on Narendra Modi, did also put out...
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
How To Actually Change the World
If there has been a political figure with a legacy so untouched and untarnished, it has to be Mahatma Gandhi. Orwell wrote of Gandhi, a...
- May 27, 2019
- 5 min
Citizen Zuck: The Most Powerful Man in the World
Facebook’s co-founder Chris Hughes’ recent testimony against Mark Zuckerberg was revealing and very agreeable for anyone who is concerned...
- May 23, 2019
- 3 min
Overthrow the Gandhi Family
When Morarji Desai lay at Lutyens for two years with his grand mandate, he was told by someone, that “there are bitter weeds” in the...
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
Early and Often: Voting and Its Discontents
In the Summer of 1947, John F. Kennedy, then a young Congressman, visited his sister Kathleen in England. Kathleen, who had married into...
- Apr 23, 2019
- 6 min
Why Do We Vote?
As India votes in its 17th Lok Sabha, and maybe one of the most important ones in recent history, it is a good time to reflect on the...
- Apr 16, 2019
- 4 min
Lipika Kamra: We need more women in elected bodies
Lipika Kamra is an Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2016....
- Apr 3, 2019
- 3 min
The Peter Cat Recording Co. Interview: Bismillah will be the end of an era for us
Peter Cat Recording Co. is an Indian band, based in Delhi. With a very interesting oeuvre, the band is fast gaining tracks with both the...
- Mar 30, 2019
- 6 min
The Masculinity of Psychology
A few months ago, a person I consider ‘highly intelligent’ made some conclusive remarks about men being smarter than women, citing the...
- Mar 27, 2019
- 3 min
A Parody of All The President’s Men
After over two years, the Mueller report has finally been sent in, and much to the chagrin of the Democratic party and the liberal media,...
- Mar 23, 2019
- 6 min
Cārvāka: The Atheist-Materialist School of Indian Philosophy
Cārvāka is an unorthodox school in Indian Philosophy which deals with epistemological questions like – How far can we know reality? How...
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