Opinion: Foreign assistance: It is a truism that the Western scholars vilified by Hindu nationalists today are completely different from the White Indophiles, patrons, thinkers and activists who helped globalise Hinduism |The Telegraph, March 19th, 2026|
Higher Education: Political attacks on social science open the way to tech dystopia: In the later second and early third decades of the 21st century, as vast stretches of the world have elected illiberal regimes led by populist autocrats and near-dictators, the connections between academic research and policy decisions have largely withered. |Times Higher Education, February 23rd, 2026|
Education: Galgotias University and the Robotic Race for Productive Research: It is a revealing symptom of the world we inhabit today that universities are chasing products over concepts. |The Wire, February 20th, 2026|
Literature: Writing With Fire – Literature In A Post-Epstein World: Where do we look for universal moral values? Will the dangerous dalliance of art and intellect offer epiphanies, or will they only muddy our ethical clarities in a world gone mad? |Outlook, February 19th, 2026|
Higher Education: View from the classroom: Writer Saikat Majumdar on teaching narrative intelligence in the age of AI; To get the most out of AI, human beings must learn to become efficient, innovative and ethical co-workers. |Scroll, February 14, 2026|
Opinion: Why it is Time for Us to Be Nice to AI: Or else, it will behave much the way it sees us behave with the world, life, and the planet. |The Wire, February 08th, 2026|
Opinion: Why India Foregrounds STEM Research and Suppresses the Humanities and Social Sciences: In India, the word ‘research’ almost exclusively signifies developments in the natural sciences, and better still, in applied technology that can be quickly monetised. |The Wire, January 22nd, 2026|
Literary Trends: The Nobel and the Booker remind us of the apocalyptic and absurd in Central European fiction: What is the peculiar fusion of apocalyptic pessimism and bizarre humour that defines it? László Krasznahorkai and David Szalay’s novels might have the answers. | Scroll, January 11, 2026|
Opinion: Blood Brothers: It is shocking to realise that the self-conception of the nation now accommodates, indeed, foregrounds, both the calm superiority of the vishwaguru and the bloodthirsty violence of Dhurandhar |The Telegraph, January 08, 2026|
Opinion: A university-hatched bomb plot raises explosive questions for Indian HE : Last month’s deadly car bombing at Delhi’s Red Fort, allegedly planned and perpetrated by academics and doctors, has left observers asking what such an outrage says about the nature, quality and future of the country’s universities | Times Higher Education, December 16, 2025|
Opinion: Who’s my neighbour: Inside a gated community, three creatures have sorted out the world between them. And no, the humans are not among them | The Indian Express, December 03, 2025|
Culture: The Year of Hungary: For me, the irony of the “major” and the “minor” became blatant in unexpected ways this year, which, in more ways than I had imagined, turned out to be the year of Hungary | The Wire, December 06, 2025|
Opinion: Can academic freedom survive in the new age of hard power: A world dominated by hard power might ultimately be one in which academic freedom ceases to be a factor in the prestige and reputation of universities |Times Higher Education, November 17, 2025|
Literary Tribute: Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025): The South African writer who rediscovered the ordinary |Scroll, November 15, 2025|
Opinion: Forced to Choose: Trump’s compact is in clever accordance with American capitalism. It makes its appearance as a choice offered to universities that becomes for them a favourable financial transaction |The Telegraph, November 13, 2025|