📺 THE NATION WANTS TO KNOW: Basanti Power Stolen? [Opening music, moving graphics, blazing headlines across screen] Text on screen: BLO GONE ROGUE? REEGU’S TANK TOP BLAST! Arnab (thundering): “Good evening ladies…
Category: Politics
Donald Trump is Danny Crane without Alan Shore.
Donald Trump is Denny Crane Without Alan Shore: The Limits of Performative Leadership Both Denny Crane—the legendary, bombastic attorney from Boston Legal—and Donald Trump exemplify a style of leadership built on bravado,…
Small Town Lawyers: Inspiration from Abraham Lincoln
 Small-Town Briefs and Lincolnian Echoes: India’s Many Lincolns The Small Town Lawyers. Preface: Redefining the Lincoln Analogy While the United States reveres Abraham Lincoln—the rural, small town lawyer who rose to…
Fictional Youtube video directs UK Prime Minister to resign.
Silent Force v Starmer: The Constitutional Crisis of UK due to Silent Force v Starmer: A Clash of Law and Power According to youtube channel Britain Talks, the United Kingdom (UK) Supreme…
The Maharashtra Castling and future Politics
In July 2022, I wrote a piece comparing Maharashtra’s politics or power arrangement to the Putin–Medvedev switch in Russia. That analysis, once seen as metaphorical, now reads like a fulfilled prophecy. What…
Why everything has to be kadak or strong in India
Why Everything is Kadak in India Introduction Why do we Indians like everything kadak — strong, intense, bold? Kadak tea. Kadak coffee. Kadak spices. Even our arguments, politics, and cinema are kadak….
The Great Reservation Failure
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> Job Reservation has failed. The Promise That Never Came. Thirty three years ago India made a promise. Reservation would create transformational leaders from oppressed communities. The policy would break social…