Tag Psychology
Why We Stay Silent
In the first two parts of this series, we mapped the gap between constitutional promise and operational reality. We traced how India inherited a colonial administrative machinery that functions as a “steel cage,” how accountability mechanisms have been structurally weakened, and how political parties absorb individual agency while projecting the illusion of participation. We looked at the July 2026 protests, where students demanding exam reform were met with force rather than negotiation.
I Watched Animal
When I say, ‘it’s complicated’, I do not mean the film has a complicated or nuanced story line. (Of course, such a story is not what the audience seems to have gone there for.) My sister dragged me to it, because she did not want to watch the treat all by herself. So, yes, I went for it after telling my brain not to look for logic. However, the fact that I am even attempting to write this post tells you that my brain ignored that advice anyway.
Sexual Abuse in Schools
Yesterday, I woke up to the news that students of a top school in Chennai—Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (or PSBB)—had alleged that a teacher had sexually abused them. The piece of news shook me because my cousin studied in the school, and I could personally relate to it. The teacher also taught at the same branch that she studied in. But as usual, the issue received a polarised public response.
Panic Buying during hard times
The way the year 2020 started bordered on insane. For those in India, this effect was rather pronounced, starting from Kerala passing a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, followed by upping of the protests across the country—Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh being the flag ship, to the incidents of dirty politics during the Delhi Elections campaigning, to the novel coronavirus going on claiming thousands of lives.