On 18 April 2023, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India will begin hearings on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised across the country. This follows a landmark judgment of 2018 scrapping a colonial-era law that criminalised homosexuality. …

On 24 November 2022, I took part in a panel discussion, on the occasion of World Philosophy Day, on the theme “The Language of Symbols: Keys to Meaning” The intent was to explore how symbols shape our lives and how we may productively engage with them. …

On 19 November 2021, I took part in a panel discussion, on the occasion of World Philosophy Day, on the theme “Walking the Talk: Practical Philosophy.” The intent, in these pandemic times, was to present philosophy as an activity that is neither academic nor abstract, but one with direct practical…

Vir Das, stand-up comic, has provoked a controversy over the video of his recent monologue, titled Two Indias, at the John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts in Washington DC (if you have not seen the video, do watch it here). He has been accused of insulting India, of washing…

There has been a great deal of controversy over Kangana Ranaut’s recent statement that the freedom India won in 1947 was ‘bheek’ (alms) and true freedom was gained only in 2014 when Narendra Modi’s BJP came to govern India. …

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. Primo Levi On most Sunday mornings, after a late and leisurely breakfast, I settle down…

Yesterday, my teacher became a tree so I may learn how to face the wind with the fortitude of fractal grace. Tomorrow, my teacher says she shall be femininity showing me how my body can strain the tides of attachment into a pool of serenity. Last week, my teacher was a group of children interrupted by wonder in the middle of a game, examining a compelling history singing within a mound of dirt. Every day, my teacher is willing to undergo the pain of metamorphosis solely so that I should learn. All she asks in return is that I always recognise her face.

In India, we are in the midst of a particularly virulent second surge of the Covid-19 pandemic and I am yet to meet an Indian who does not have a personal story to tell of heart-breaking loss wreaked by the pandemic, whether it be close family or friend, professional colleague…

I am seeing a string of social media posts asserting that the victory of the Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal election is solely due to the massive Muslim vote they received as a result of their appeasement of this community. Aware that the percentage of Muslims in West Bengal…