Category: Current Affairs

Most things under the sun that ought to be discussed

What’s going on in Manipur?

A dive into one of the worst outbreaks of violence in India in the last couple of decades I refrained from commenting on the situation in Manipur for the last several weeks for a...

Midweek Readings

Rajeev Srinivasan and Abhishek Puri recently wrote a piece for Open on “The New Knowledge War on why Indic scholars and AI experts (and enthusiasts) need to be alert to the risks posed by unrepresentative...

What I read (& found interesting) last week…

This week I am going to be lazy and so you will just have to do with a collections of interesting articles/tweets from the last two weeks. Noah Smith has a blog series running...

The Yazidis, the rage, the silence of the Ummah..

Less than a week back, the world witnessed a remarkable series of coordinated demonstrations. In Washington, in London, in Paris, in Sydney and tens of cities around the world, protestors marched to express solidarity...