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Random Musing 31: The most amusing thing about the Riddhi Patel fiasco
The Riddhi Patel imbroglio has an important lesson about American democracy.
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In Memes #1: The Guardian report on India's alleged assassination squads
It’s one of life’s untold truths that the right-wing sucks at high art. They are great at lowbrow propaganda which is why their Mrinal Sen is Vivek…
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Random Musing 30: Deciphering the Global Liberal Order
From river to the sea, Punjab will be free: Indian Liberal
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Random Musings #29: Why it doesn't matter who wins or loses when MS Dhoni is batting
The IPL is largely unwatchable at times, a two-month long yagya for Mammon with a little cricket on the side. But, not when MS Dhoni is at the crease...
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March 2024

Random Musing #28: Narendra Modi’s Bedtime Routine
We might make it a series till the elections get over.
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The Biyah Tales Episode 1: The Holy Ghost
“I once loved a woman, a child I am told. I gave her my heart and my soul.”
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February 2024

Random Musings #27: Bazball, Bazball, wherefore art thou Bazball?
Like most overhyped English products, Bazball is largely unoriginal but carries all the English characteristics that make it one of the most hated…
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Random Musing #26: Why Narendra said football (not American football) was key to reaching heaven
Narendra wasn’t advocating for football over the Gita – the greatest self-help book ever written – but explaining that to possess a sound mind and body…
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Random Musing #25: Rohit Sharma, Voltaire and the parable of the garden
Rohit Sharma was ditching Nehruvian niceties but channelling his inner Voltaire. Here's how.
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January 2024

Why a Somali pirate wearing an RCB jersey is a true triumph of decolonization and IPL
True decolonization. Put in even simpler terms it’s this: having a better relationship with Mammon than your former colonisers.
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Random Musing #24: The disturbing pro-Hindutva imagery in Dev Patel’s Monkey Man
The trailer makes constant references to Hanuman, a monkey god who is an aide to Rama, a controversial Hindu deity worshipped by upper-caste…
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Bengaluru riots gives us a glimpse of how we came from Nehru’s India to Modi’s India
To understand how far political discourse has come in India – how the Overton window has been stretched – one simply has to look at the media coverage…
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