RIP Manohar Parikkar
I’VE never met Mr Manohar Parikkar. By all accounts — and there are plenty of accounts on the…
WTFJH: Links
#1. In a four-day span starting October 7, 69 children have died in BRD Hospital, Gorakhpur — the…
WTF just happened: Sept 24
Three days into this WTFJH series that I started as a means to find/reclaim my voice, and I…
Drought, redux
To my surprise, an earlier post on the pointless symbolism of shifting the IPL out of Maharashtra resulted…
Two stories, one dangerous trend
A policeman is seen supposedly drunk. Someone shoots a video and uploads it. The Aam Aadmi Party, which…
Trump, Modi and the “preference cascade”
If this is true, then in both America and India, beneath the veneer of sophisticated political discourse, there…
Essential reading: Shame Culture
Via Arati Kumar-Rao, this piece on the rise of the tribe on social media, and the related cultures of…
The art of the smear
I saw the photo first, me in a bloody wash of red with “RACIST” pulsing over my face.…
Kanhaiya leaks, redux
Throwing this Sandip Roy piece in here (though frankly, I am bloody bored with the infantile debate —…
Kanhaiya peed, Oh My God I don’t even…
We are now into day three of this story — and the outrage levels remain as amped up…
