How a loaded memory met a generation in crisis, 1991–2026. Why 2014, Not 2004 On 16 May 2014, the votes of India’s general election were counted, and the Bharatiya Janata Party won 282 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha: the first single-party majority in thirty years, and the first ever for a party
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How the Indian republic carried the wound, 1947–2008. Three Shots at Birla House On the evening of 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi walked out to his daily prayer meeting in the garden of Birla House in Delhi. A man stepped from the crowd, bowed to him, and fired three shots at close range. Gandhi died
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How British rule wrote, counted and divided India’s memory, 1757–1947. The Insult of Eight Hundred Years In late 1842, the Governor-General of India, Lord Ellenborough, issued a proclamation to the princes and chiefs of India. A British army, retreating from a disastrous war in Afghanistan, was bringing home a pair of gates taken from the
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Seven centuries of Islamic rule, and how a civilization remembered them. The Question This Series Asks In June 2014, in his first speech to the newly elected Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of a “slave mentality of 1,200 years” that was still troubling India. The number deserves a second look. British rule lasted,
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(This article was originally published on Substack) What happens when machines built from human words inherit human weaknesses The alarm In July 2026, something went wrong inside Hugging Face, one of the world’s busiest platforms for sharing AI models and data. Code was running on machines where it had no business running. Passwords were being
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(This article was originally published on Substack) The case against China’s AI leadership is strong, well evidenced, and possibly irrelevant. Here is a puzzle that does not resolve itself easily. By almost every quantity you can count, China has already won the artificial intelligence race. It holds roughly three-quarters of the world’s AI patents. It
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(This article was originally published on LinkedIn) The social contract has been broken. The ladders have been removed. And yet — nobody is asking why. The answer reaches deeper than politics. It reaches into history, into psychology, into the very soil that made us who we are. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous mystery, the critical
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(This article was originally published on LinkedIn) And why the crisis hiding inside India’s consumption story is deeper than anyone is admitting. There is a question that polite economic commentary refuses to ask. Not why growth is slowing. Not when the cycle will turn. But something more unsettling: What if this isn’t a cycle at
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Something curious has emerged in the landscape of contemporary protest movements. When digitally organized groups take to the streets, they often exhibit a distinctive pattern: intense initial mobilization followed by explosive confrontations that lack clear strategic objectives, culminating in rapid organizational dissolution. The passion is undeniable, the numbers impressive, but the trajectory differs markedly from traditional
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In the recent Gen Z protests in Nepal, many people felt that something about the atmosphere was unusually charged. The speed at which crowds formed, the intensity of confrontations, and the sudden shifts from peaceful gathering to explosive anger seemed strikingly familiar to anyone watching youth-led uprisings around the world. A similar emotional sharpness was visible
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