What a mother feels for their child cannot be compared with anything else. I say this as a father. The unconscious memory of the body is different.

Unless you live in an earthquake prone area and have to run out of your home in the middle of the night

Friends, in my 20s, I ate/breathed/slept/dreamt Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Lacan, Eco, Irigaray, Kristeva, Butler, Laclau, Barthes, Macherey, and several others. Ab budhaape mein yeh sab mujhe mat sikhaao.

I go to the hills When my heart is lonely I know I will hear What I have heard before My heart will be blessed With the sound of music And I'll sing once more

People moaning about “ merit” on social media are the losers. 90+ percent of high paying high status roles are filled by upper castes, largely men. Unlike the losers they never crib about “merit”. I elucidate, in context of the debate on “lateral entry” m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

Seriously unreasonable ‘girls.’ Especially the one who doesn’t want to move to a village to live with her in-laws.

I fried myself today under the shower.

Finally, someone explains why bank deposits are dropping instead of resorting to stupidity. And who better to do it than शिक्षित बेरोज़गार livemint.com/mint-top-newsl…

Hathras redux in Farrukhabad Uttar Pradesh? Where is the outrage and the protests for these 2 Dalit teenagers? Or are they too inconsequential because of caste and class? Why is the family being forced to cremate the bodies quickly after not allowing them to see them first?

Tu banaale

There is something about X/Twitter that brings out a very negative instinct in me - the urge to criticise, intimidate, humiliate, anyone who says things that I don't like. I am very glad that I have been able to curb this instinct in this new handle.

From personal experience I can say that even men who are not smart find it equally hard.

Some 7-8 years ago, Kangana Ranaut was feted as a feminist icon, an outsider who had taken on the Bollywood elite. At that time everything she said was taken as gospel truth. It is just that her politics has changed.

When I was looking for a placement fresh from the small town of Jabalpur with a law degree from a really small law college in 1998 and right up until 1999, I was told at the reception of four law firms never to come back again to them. It sounds nicer when I don’t reproduce what

Yes, indeed, he really did, Charlie Parker played in Birdland.

Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line) So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction

The time has come to reclaim the public sphere for tolerance, kindness, empathy and liberal values. Bigots and haters are on the backfoot. Keep them there.

You don't need to be happy in life. You just have to ensure that you are not unhappy. So, don't do things that you know will make you unhappy. Because, as someone once said: "Do you know how pale and wanton... comes death on a strange hour? Unannounced, unplanned for."