81 posts, all in one place.
2026
Sep 19·14 min readThe Celebrity Exception
Sep 3·14 min readWhen India’s GDP Rewrote the Past
Aug 28·12 min readThe Wrong Kind of Low Risk
Aug 13·12 min readInvincibility Is a Luxury
Aug 6·8 min readThe Movement Didn't Move. Its Membership Did.
Aug 4·9 min readThe Forgotten Gods by the Roadside
Aug 1·6 min readDemocracy Counts Intensity, Not Just Votes
Aug 1·14 min readThe "Foreign Hand" Playbook
Jul 27·10 min readWronger Than Both Put Together
Jul 19·6 min readFandom With a Party Office
Jul 12·9 min readThere Is a Moral Ranking of Foods. It Isn't Yours.
Jul 5·5 min readYou Sang It Before You Believed It
Jun 28·6 min readYou Cannot Install a Democracy
Jun 21·10 min readTradition Is Evidence, Not Authority
Jun 14·5 min readSame House, Opposite Convictions
Jun 7·9 min readThe Inverse Peacock
Jun 6·7 min readBP Didn't Invent Your Carbon Footprint. Environmentalists Did.
Jun 1·27 min readLegibility Asymmetry
May 26·15 min readIndia Under the BJP: Delivery Without Transformation
May 24·6 min readNobody Is Thinking as Hard as You Think They Are
May 18·14 min readScience Follows the Buyer
May 11·6 min readWhat a Crime Statistic Cannot Tell You
May 9·8 min readThe 401(k) Doesn't Exclude You. It Scales With What You Already Have.
May 4·10 min readCronyism Didn't Decline. It Got a Statute.
Apr 26·7 min readThe Loneliness Epidemic Isn't Happening. Loneliness Still Is.
Apr 19·9 min readGovernment vs Campaign
Apr 12·5 min readThe Work That Keeps the Lights On Has No Spokesperson
Apr 11·8 min readThe Evidence That Community Collapsed Has Itself Collapsed
Apr 5·9 min readModernize the Network, Not the Farmer
Mar 29·6 min read"I'm Just an Introvert" Is Sometimes a Diagnosis in Disguise
Mar 24·7 min readA Million Seconds Is Eleven Days. A Billion Is Thirty-Two Years.
Mar 22·9 min readBeing Seen as a Body Is Not the Same as Being Reduced to One
Mar 15·9 min readYour Brain Can't Tell Fluent From True
Mar 14·9 min readThe Bill Isn't What Bankrupts You. The Missing Wages Are.
Mar 13·7 min read100% Preventable Is Not a Policy
Mar 11·7 min readThe Machine Does Not Have to Want to Survive
Mar 5·11 min readA 0.1% Conviction Rate Is Not a Broken Law
Feb 28·11 min readMost of Your Income Was Decided Before You Did Anything
Feb 24·9 min readEveryone Agreeing Is Not Evidence
Feb 24·6 min readWhen 'Both Sides' Is Not Balance
Feb 19·23 min readThe Cooperative Paradox
Feb 16·20 min readThe Extraction Economy
Feb 14·21 min readThe Terminal Vanity
Feb 13·19 min readThe Psychology of Intellectual Posturing
Feb 11·18 min readSensory Processing Sensitivity Explained
Feb 6·17 min readThe Dravidian Movement and Caste in Tamil Nadu
Feb 2·6 min readThe Speech Macaulay Never Gave
Jan 29·19 min readAre You in Love—Or Just Addicted to the Chase?
Jan 29·7 min readThe Volume Clinic Cannot See the Exception
Jan 23·12 min readThe Gap Isn't Income. It's Whether You Already Own Something.
Jan 18·25 min readAre We Punishing Crime or Just Performing Justice?
Jan 16·9 min readWhy Are Tamil Nadu's Communities Turning Local Gods Into Mainstream Deities?
Jan 14·9 min readSanskritization on Screen
Jan 12·8 min readOne Half of This Argument Has Evidence Behind It
Jan 10·10 min read44% of Indians Say They Believe in Astrology. 83% Time Their Decisions By It.
Jan 8·7 min readKeezhadi to Kumari Kandam
Jan 6·24 min readThe IT Worker's Infinite Treadmill
Jan 4·11 min readTamil Nadu's Debt Argument Is Conducted in the Wrong Units
Jan 3·6 min readSouth India's Escalating Drug Crisis
Jan 2·5 min readDoes Respecting a Person Mean Agreeing with Their Ideas?
Jan 1·25 min readIs Your Guru Gaslighting You?
2025
Dec 31·12 min readThe Metabolic Realities of the South Asian Body
Dec 30·5 min readThe Captive Intellect
Dec 29·4 min readThe Algorithmic "Super-Peer"
Dec 28·23 min readTamil Nadu's 2021–25 Record vs Gujarat
Dec 27·9 min readThe Interconnectedness of Power
Dec 26·20 min readUttar Pradesh under Yogi Adityanath
Dec 23·10 min readThe White Coat Paradox
Dec 21·14 min readIndia's Secularism Was Never a Western Import
Dec 20·7 min readThe Peacock Paradox
Dec 7·9 min readThere Is No Late Stage
Nov 26·8 min readThe Practice Didn't Stop. It Moved Into Clinics.
Nov 16·6 min readIdeology Is the Software, Not the Machine
Nov 2·9 min readThe Brain Did Not Decide Before You Did
Oct 19·7 min readWhat Your Language Actually Does to Your Mind
Oct 1·9 min readEveryone Sat the Same Exam
Sep 14·7 min readWe Build Them Up to Have Something to Pull Down
Aug 31·9 min readThe Interventions That Work Ask the Least of You
Aug 17·6 min readFeeling With Is Not Doing Right
Aug 3·8 min readThe Marketplace Is Failing in a Very Small Place
Jul 20·7 min readThe Trauma Explanation Explains Too Much