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What the Children Said: The Humbling Realities Beyond India’s ‘Gen Z Protests’

June felt like T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland. Mumbai was hot. Extremely humid, paralyzing, and hot. “It’s…

Unwitting Victims: How a Polarized Nation Demands We Choose Either the Protesters Or the Police

This morning I found myself reading two stories that, at first glance, had nothing to…

How Students Employed a Clever Mix of Cutting-Edge Technologies To Stay Connected and Humbled Modi Government

What we witnessed in India the last month with the NEET protests led by the…

You Should Know the Odyssey and Greek Mythology Fairly Well Before Watching Christopher Nolan’s Magnum Opus

Whether a movie is good or bad, and I realize this even more as I’ve…

‘Employee Dharma Handbook’: The Scourge of Caste Discrimination Showcased in a Play by TheaterWorks

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley kicked off Season 56 with the world premiere of “The Employee Dharma…

To the Young People at Jantar Mantar: Thank You for the Gift of Your Courage. I Intend to Keep It

For the last twelve years, I have written about everything — A.R. Rahman and Wimbledon,…

Why India’s Education Crisis Keeps Repeating Itself — and Why the Protests in Delhi May Change Little Unless We Look Beyond the Fire

The smoke rose over Jantar Mantar again this week. Students gathered in their thousands, demanding…

It’s Not Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Diego Maradona Remains Supreme in the Pantheon of Football

The debate over who reigns supreme in the pantheon of football often comes down to…

Pentimento: Thirty-Nine Days. One Hundred and Four Matches. Three Hundred and Eight Goals. One Layer, Finished and Signed

Restorers have a word for it. Pentimento. When a painting ages and the earlier images…

The Architecture of Trusteeship: Sonam Wangchuk and the Institutional Redesign of the Republic

What kind of citizen emerges when institutions leave foundational questions unanswered for too long? Not…

I Watched ‘The Odyssey’ First Day, First Show: The Liberties Christopher Nolan Takes With Homer’s Epic Are Real, And They Are Brilliant

FDFS is not an acronym I expect most of my American friends to know. First…

Celebrated Ecological Activist’s Protest Fast Serves as a Profound Critique of the State of India’s Democracy

July in New Delhi is not for the faint of heart. At Delhi’s historic protest…

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