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Pranav Kuttaiah
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Jun 26, 2022

“If Not Modi, then who?”

Lots of people on social media these days find some solace in laughing at this right-wing trope of “if not Modi then who?”. I suppose we all need an escape from this morbidity, and finding humour is good. But at a deeper level we are witnessing the harrowing results of…

India

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India

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Feb 4, 2022

What’s in a name? Scattered Thoughts on ‘Mispronunciation’

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…

Names

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What’s in a name?
What’s in a name?
Names

8 min read


Jul 20, 2021

Between Form and Technology: Learning to Write for the Digital Age

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” —…

Writing

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Between Form and Technology: Learning to Write for the Digital Age
Between Form and Technology: Learning to Write for the Digital Age
Writing

8 min read


Jun 29, 2021

Cancel Culture is Not Progressive Politics: A Response to The Print

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…

Cancel Culture

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Cancel Culture is Not Progressive Politics: A Response to The Print
Cancel Culture is Not Progressive Politics: A Response to The Print
Cancel Culture

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Jun 9, 2021

Writing, Art, Knowledge, Identity, The Internet: Rambled Musings

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. …

Identity

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Identity

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Jun 5, 2021

Why I Hate Reading Lists: A Biography of and Manifesto for Woke Indian Cyberspace

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…

Cancel Culture

20 min read

Cancel Culture

20 min read

Pranav Kuttaiah

Pranav Kuttaiah

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Purposeful Writer, Accidental Academic.

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