Not all births are celebrated equally in this country. Some arrive with grandeur and dhol-baaje, while others do not have the fate of a happy arrival. More often than not, it is the girl child who is greeted this way, while the male child is celebrated, supposedly destined to take […]
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“2026 Mein Duniya Khatam”- A Prophecy Gone Right
There was a time when my biggest problems were things like math homework, slow Wi-Fi, and trying to assist my friend in wooing his crush. But recently, the world has decided to upgrade from “teen drama” to full-blown apocalypse movie mode. Every time I open the news, I feel like […]
Free Market as Travesty: A Historical Indictment of Market Fundamentalism
The idea that the free market is a natural, efficient, and self-regulating system is not a conclusion derived from history. It is an ideological claim sustained in spite of history. When examined across centuries and geographies, the empirical record does not show markets emerging from freedom, producing stability, or distributing […]



