Editorial
The common belief is that karma is some cosmic justice. Some divine scoreboard where bad people get their comeuppance and good people win lottery tickets. You've probably nodded along to this sanitized, Westernized idiocy while sipping your 'chai tea', thinking karma works like some celestial court
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Your cousin gets into Harvard. The whole family shares the Facebook post. Your aunt calls everyone she knows. Banners are put up. And you feel it too - that swell of pride, that sense of "we made it." But here's what you don't realize
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There you were, scrolling through your feed, feeling good about sharing that inspiring story of Fatima Sheikh—India's pioneering Muslim woman teacher, a forgotten hero finally getting her due. You hit "share" with that warm glow of righteousness, didn't you? Because this is exactly
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Last week, I watched my friend Ragini—lovely person, theater professional, animal lover—post seventeen stories about a crisis she'd literally never mentioned before. Not once. In years of casual conversations, this particular injustice had never crossed her lips. But seventeen Instagram stories in four hours? She was
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Dear America, We need to talk. You think you're the good guys, don't you? You believe your government spreads democracy, fights terrorism, and makes the world safer. You've been told that your relationship with unsavory characters is regrettable but necessary—the price of operating
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Dear Western mind, let me guess what happened when you first tried to understand India. You pulled out your map of the world. Clean borders, color-coded countries, everything in its proper place. Developed nations in blue, developing ones in yellow. Religious societies over here, secular ones over there. Traditional cultures
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The inside story of how Washington turned Europe into its concubine without firing a shot. The first rule of the Great Energy Heist is: you do not talk about the Great Energy Heist. The second rule is: Europe doesn't get to have cheap energy anymore. There is one
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Dear self proclaimed leftist. There are things you disapprove of and things you despise and beyond all these things, on top of the disapproval ladder is the Hindu nationalist or what the JNU alumni call, the Hindutvawadi. Like an INS warship cruising the vast Indian Ocean that has a radar
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The popular narrative goes like this. One day, in 2014, Narendra Modi ascended to the chair of the Prime Minister of India, waved a wand and it immediately turned hundreds of millions of Indians into despicable, self-respecting hindutva-wadis, who then without question, proceeded to accept him as their supreme leader.