India's Youth Need a Life, Not Just a Rank In many Indian homes, a child's life is converted into a queue before the child understands what life is. Queue for the right school, q…
Luxury Has Become the New Poverty of the Mind There was a time when poverty meant not having enough. Today, a new poverty has entered the lives of people who have more than any g…
Social Media Turned Self-Expression Into Self-Obsession The new Indian mirror is not made of glass. It is made of pixels, likes, filters, captions, reactions and the quiet anxiet…
A society that cannot tolerate doubt eventually becomes afraid of its own citizens. It may build laboratories, launch satellites, teach coding and celebrate innovation days, but i…
There is a moment in the life of many Indian children when something changes. It might happen at age eight, or ten, or twelve. Suddenly, the games stop. The unscheduled hours disa…
There is a particular kind of wisdom that sounds correct but is dangerously incomplete. It goes something like this: if every individual makes the best decision for themselves, so…
India has developed a particular talent for celebrating women's success while simultaneously constraining women's freedom. The contradiction has become so routine that most people…
There is a comfortable story that India tells itself about poverty. The story goes roughly like this: poverty is the natural condition of people who have not yet acquired the skil…
The Most Connected Generation Is Quietly Becoming the Loneliest India's most connected generation has a paradox: a young person can wake up to two hundred notifications and still…
Girls Are Restricted, Boys Are Pressured - India Is Hurting Both At many Indian dining tables, two children are raised under two different constitutions. The daughter learns the…
A Just Society Does Not Need to Beg for Charity Every few months, India witnesses the same moral theatre. A flood comes, a fire breaks out, a hospital bill goes viral, a child ne…
Growth Without Justice Creates Wealth Without Peace There is a city India likes to display to itself: glass towers, expressways, startup offices, luxury housing, digital payments…
The Most Powerful Inequality in India Is Also the Least Noticed The most powerful inequality in India often does not look like inequality at all. It looks like concern. It looks…
