New article alert 📜 & summary thread! A paper written by @MirNazir110 and I is out (DM if you cant access). We use Raymond Williams and Gramsci to explain why even at the height of the Congress' dominance, their ideas failed to achieve hegemony (cont):

Truly one of my best pieces.

This is probably the first time when Pakistani groups are claiming responsibility, and we are denying it.

This is so preposterous!! This hate got us divided once, kílled many, uprooted a number, and left trauma and hatred. If you are not standing against this hate actively and every day, you are enabling the hate. Stop the dehumanisation of Muslims, remove govts that fuel this hate!

That a political career will not fade into oblivion for this act alone tells you a lot about the state of Indian society today. Yes, people will report it, and it may even get taken down. But it is only a manifestation of a deeper rot. How do we fix that?

One thing that astonished me in my Bihar travels this month: Despite 20 years in power, #NitishKumar had few personal detractors. People had complaints with his government, but seldom anything against him personally. This reflects in the numbers today. #BiharElection2025

Wtf they automated French philosophers

India’s “new security doctrine” has spread a kind of hush…all over the Indian media, and some other habitual offenders. Remarkably restrained. So well behaved. Even 24 hrs after #Delhiblast. No calls for war. Oh, the irony of unintended consequences.

Yet another Vishwaguru engineering Marvel in Bhopal They built metro flyover so low that buses and trucks couldn't pass thru, and they would hit the metro beams. To work around that, they dug up the road below 😂 https://t.co/pVtoJBhwwU

My favourite hobby is reminding Stephanians that they produced Zia ul Haq

Zohran Mamdani is an interfaith kid. The people in India who believe in doxxing, dehumanising & harassing interfaith couples, or seeing their kids as "not Muslim enough/bad Muslim" simply because of their birth - do not get to appropriate him without looking like hypocrites 🙃

A very important intervention in the discipline, esp given the caste-amnesia in Indian IR.

Imagined Raj Kapoor/Mukesh singing this

Nehru drove so Zohran could run…

The Tweet.

It’s real

Didn’t have Nehru’s tryst with destiny and dhoom machale in NY mayoral elections’ victory speech on my tambola card

RIP, gone too late. Here is Eminem's befitting tribute to the war criminal (from 'Without Me', 2002):

मचा दिया

Ah yes, Jesus, quite the fan of fifth generation warfare and overextended empires

the kiss of death