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Ananya Vajpeyi

The artistry of free speech in South Asia: Politics is inescapable but it isn’t the end-all of art

It is possible to be an artist, an intellectual, in a mode that is not necessarily or overtly oppositional and combative.

Ananya Vajpeyi
· Nov 25, 2019 · 06:30 am
Why Gandhi’s favourite bhajan ‘Vaishnav Jan To’ is so important in Modi’s hate-filled India

First they killed the Mahatma. And then they went after his message of empathy.

Ananya Vajpeyi
· Jun 14, 2017 · 11:30 am
No talking in the Hindu Rashtra: Lessons from the disruptions at Delhi's Ramjas College

What does the Hindu Right fear the most? Is it who talks? Or is it what is talked about?

Ananya Vajpeyi
· Feb 23, 2017 · 05:49 pm

The 'Arthaśāstra' is a manual of statecraft. It is neither a Hindu nor a moral treatise

A recent translation establishes that Kautilya, whose root text became the basis of the 'Arthaśāstra', and the Brahman Cāṇakya were not the same person.

Ananya Vajpeyi
· Feb 20, 2017 · 08:30 am