Journalistic Writing

1991 was a historic flashpoint in the economic and social reform of India, the country at this point had reached the brink of socio-political turmoil. The trigger was the Mandal Commission and its recommendations to expand reservations in government jobs and education based on caste. With India at the time largely following a command economy structure where government jobs were the only opportunities most had, the country erupted in anger across urban India--particularly amon

Until 4th grade, my father didn’t know a single word of English. He lived in Nepal and attended school in India, studying entirely in the Hindi medium. “Even maths,” he told me. “ Ganit . All the multiplication tables—I learnt everything in Hindi.” English was not a second language, or even a distant aspiration. It simply did not exist in his classroom. That changed abruptly when his family moved to Bhubaneswar, and he was admitted to a convent school, Stuart School. He was i

In Nagaland, for a really long time, there was a shadow government led by insurgent Naga nationalists who were fighting for statehood. Later in school, I learned about them in detail as we visited Nagaland and other North Eastern regions in India during our Grade 11 school trip, delving deeper into the history, culture, and systems that defined this region. As we read and learned from experts, I realized there were many parallels to stories I had heard growing up about my fam