All stories
Every story we have published, in the order we published them.
Politics
What a free bus ride actually changed
Before you call it a freebie, ride the six-thirty bus and watch who gets on.
Geopolitics
Why India buys Russian oil and apologises to no one
A poor country with a long coastline does not get to choose its century. It gets to choose its barrels.
Technology
UPI made paying free. Someone still pays. Here is who.
The vegetable seller scans your code in a second. The second is not free. It is just not billed to her.
Politics
How to read a Bengal election without picking a tribe
The wrestling match on your screen is not the only Bengal there is.
Geopolitics
What India loses when America turns on Iran
It is not a war we are watching. It is a quiet account being closed.
Technology
The AI is here. What does an Indian under thirty do?
An honest answer from a country with eight hundred million people under thirty-five and an industry that has just lost its old shape.
Sports
The IPL is brilliant. Why does it have to feel like war?
We have the greatest T20 league in the world. The crowd in the stand is told to behave like an army.
Spirituality
Yoga is not a stretch. The actual practice.
Patanjali wrote one hundred and ninety-six sutras. Three are about postures. We have built a billion-dollar industry on the smallest part.
Environment
What we have stopped counting in the forests
We measure what flatters us. The numbers that do not flatter us, we have quietly stopped measuring.
Voice
The age is dark. The world goes fine.
A founding letter from India. On the algorithmic darkness of our age, and the slow seed of the next one.