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The Theatre of Vikaas

India, March 2 -- The recent Galgotias University faux pas at the AI Summit comes as a vindication of all the critics who pointed fingers at the government policies and questioned the "Vikaas" that Mo... Read More


The Unquiet Earth: Even the Grave Offers No Sanctuary

India, Feb. 20 -- There are few certainties left in this world, but the promise of a final, undisturbed rest should be one of them. In the dense forests of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, and in the red-earth v... Read More


The Courage to Remain Human

India, Feb. 16 -- It is indisputable that the world is becoming exponentially toxic, and the increasingly polluted environment is just one of the phenomena. Just this last week, our saffron-dyed gover... Read More


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