‘Manxiety’ in our metros
When the old rural economy collapses it also brings down patriarchy, or the traditional authority of male family elders. Yet,...
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India’s young & India’s Gods
Hindu men in their 20s & 30s have refashioned worship: less ritualistic, more experiential Young Hindus have made it known...
‘Missing voters’: Forgotten, not gone
Should EC’s plan of remote voting for migrants succeed, it will rewrite political equations. It will also force parties to...
No hi, no AI: AI needs heavy inputs of facts to deliver, and it can’t beat human intelligence, which with even poverty of info can come up with brand new ideas, concepts
Rumour is Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon overwhelm Human Intelligence (HI). We fear marauding machines trampling us with iron heels...
Plane insights on Japan
Remarkably calm rescue ops from a burning aircraft speak highly of Japanese discipline, work ethic and dividends of giving blue-collar...
What IPL auctions tell us about life
If there is one arena where nobody begrudges the good fortune of others, then that is sport. Everywhere else, there...
New Star Castes For Politics
Modi spoke of women, youth, farmers & poor as ‘castes’ that matter. Before caste politics became all-pervasive, a variation of...
Persecution’s parallel lines
Oppressed peoples usually strategise to emancipate themselves through assimilation with the dominant culture around them. This is what Jewish intellectual...
War with rules, war without rules: Aggressive nationalism informs both sports and conflicts. That the first imposes fair play requirements and the second can’t says much about limits of modernity
In most newspapers today, the front and back pages carry stirring stories of nationalism. The opening page is about war,...
Next up, The khaki ceiling: After Parliament, women must be at least one-third of the police, to push back stubborn patriarchy
The women’s reservation bill is a giant step, without doubt. Even so, the ‘but’ doesn’t stop here. In a democracy,...