Deadly stampedes like the one at Hathras are not new in India. The devotees were there in the hope of worrying a little less about their lives.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Jul/08/why-society-turns-to-miracle-workers

If alleviation of pain and care for all animal life are the defining standards of civilisation, there are higher chances of a more equitable society and fewer wars.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Jun/24/debating-empathy-at-the-dining-table

It is not as if the world does not have the resources to solve the basic problems of humanity; it is just that the system becomes meaningless in its present intentions.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/May/13/can-rationality-cure-human-ills

In Dante’s Inferno, the lately pious Emperor Constantine donates vast sums to the pope for a guaranteed seat in heaven. A similar Faustian bargain is at work to get our vote with the promise of guarantees from all sides

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Apr/15/a-lesson-from-dante-in-season-of-guarantees

here is an explosion of poetry in India now, including the publication of large anthologies such as the one edited by poet Jeet Thayil. But does the proliferation of poets translate into quality?

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Apr/02/politics-of-new-poetry-and-the-salesman-poet

As several leaders said at the recent INDIA rally in Mumbai, a third term for Modi would mean a break with India’s past. If the Congress withers further as a national party, the regional parties would need to forge new equations with the dominant national power

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Mar/20/how-not-to-have-an-opposition-less-india

India is getting fat, too. Last quarter, the GDP grew at 8.4 per cent, one of the fastest rates in the world.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Mar/06/growing-fat-and-forgetting-to-fly

Names are just sounds for animals. But not for humans, who could kill and die for them, because a name is an abbreviated history.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Feb/19/the-wild-politics-of-big-cats

Writer CP Surendran talks about his latest novel, the dysfunctionality of its characters, its political undertones and the broader issues of society that it touches upon

https://thefederal.com/features/we-are-all-nuts-partially-because-we-are-living-the-lives-of-the-dead-as-well/

Indeed, those who ‘free-willed’ the wars into existence were Putin, Zelensky, the Hamas leadership and Netanyahu. Are they now in a position to call it off? No.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Jan/08/role-of-free-will-in-our-daily-lives-2649183.html

My respect for you is primarily based on the quality of the nearly perverse persistence with which you stuck to that image.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/Jun/10/an-open-letter-to-the-mp-from-thrissur

The bills are meant to replace the existing Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Act—legacies of the British Raj.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2023/Dec/25/searching-for-indianness-in-the-new-criminal-laws-2644874.html

Despite Rahul Gandhi’s inspirational Bharat Jodo Yatra and his efforts to break out of the urban orbit, the underprivileged classes have not united behind him in any real sense.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2023/Dec/11/congresss-prospects-in-2024-between-slim-and-none-2640614.html

A single reference in a New York Times report on a funder’s probable Chinese links has landed NewsClick in trouble. It’s flimsy form on all sides

https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2023/Oct/09/the-absurdity-of-getting-at-beijing-via-new-york-2622350.html