Now that I’m a basic-ass NRI again, I think it’s about time I offered my two bits on the most basic-ass of NRI topics — the mispronunciation of “my” name. Bear with me though. I think I have an actual point to make. My urge to type this out into…

What exactly does it mean to be a writer in an age of complex, overlapping digital publics and shrinking attention spans? There are lots of ways of thinking about this. At the moment, the way I see it is that my form has to be a kind of “dabbling” —…

A recent article in The Print entitled ‘Don’t rush to cancel wokes in McCarthyian panic’ is a timely reminder that critiques of modern ‘wokeness’ often throw the baby out with the bathwater. Moreover, it reasserts that supporters of demagogues who deploy every underhanded trick in the book have little moral…

One languorous Delhi evening, a close friend of mine and I were engaged in a typically meandering conversation, flitting between various expressions of righteous anger and hesitant uncertainty. My friend, who happens to be white, asked me a fairly simple question: “Why is it that the things you write about…

Almost every second DM I get is a request for a reading recommendation. This is a trend I’ve generally observed over the years on the woke end of social media: a preponderance of lists, required readings, homework, or other kinds of ‘educating’. I have always been skeptical of this, but…