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The following is a piece I wrote for Newscentral24x7 as part of a series depicting the parallels between Nazi Germany and present day India. It was published on the 10th…
Book Review: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (Douglas Murray)
Few things can hijack a conversation quicker than saying the words “Islam” and “Immigration” in the same sentence. The subject of radical Islam and what it does to its host…
The LexValidus Show Episode 3: “Cold War Redux”
It is ironic that the first time I heard about the Cold War was on the day that it ended. It was the day the USSR finally collapsed. Suddenly, it…
The LexValidus Show Episode 2: “Kryptonite”
The first time I heard the phrase “India is a rising superpower” was in 1998. The country had just crashed the nuclear party by conducting a series of detonations at…
Update: Podcast episode 2
This is a “Good news, bad news” situation. I had the second episode of the podcast ready to be uploaded on the 27th as planned. Or so I thought. What…
Political Yoga
A country that’s had delusions of becoming a global superpower since the 80s, that cant wait to label every bumbling act by it’s duplicitous PM as “progressive”, that gleefully prosecutes…
Introducing, The LexValidus Show!
Ever have one of those days where you think you might have bitten off more than you can chew? I’ve been having one of those. Rather, I’ve been having a…
The Democracy algorithm: How much should a single vote count for?
What if the strength of a democracy was decided not by its history, institutions, transparency or even its people? What if it was decided by an algorithm? The question popped…
Because they can (Why are women in India being sexually harassed with horrifying frequency?)
I’ve been debating whether I should lend my voice to the sea of angry voices swelling up in light of the Bangalore mass molestation (yes, that’s a term now) case.…
The identity demon (What it REALLY takes to be healthy)
What does it take to really be healthy? More pointedly, what would it take to physically transform oneself? When I first wrote about Aamir Khan’s transformation, I ended the post…
