Key Points From My Conversation With CAT Aspirants Recently I returned to my alma mater VIT Vellore for an event titled “Journey through CAT Prep & Beyond” organized by Career Development Centre, VIT and GradSquare. Here are some of the key points from the interaction with fellow CAT aspirants: If…

To clear a few points at the very outset… ♦ Yes, I got a 99.98 in the VARC section despite being an engineer ♦ My vocabulary is at best above-average, in fact in my IIM A interview I actually asked one of the panel members to clarify the meaning of a…

Probably the weirdest, yet the most interesting, engaging and thrilling interview experience I ever had Date: 18th Feb, 2023 Location: ITC Welcomhotel, Bengaluru 2 panelists- 1M (Prof of Quantitative Methods), 1F (Prof of Organizational Behaviour) Lasted for around 20 mins, so a lot shorter than I expected. Please note that…

The 34 years long democratically elected Left front government is an enigma for most political pundits. A lot has been said and written about it. How can a regime presiding over the worst slide in every possible parameter for a province continue for so long? Lot has been written about…

You Can Choose Not To Subscribe To It, But Watering Down The Origins & Intellectual Foundations Of Indian Nationalism Must Be Avoided. On Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s birth anniversary (27/05) here are a few of my thoughts around Indian nationalism and the debate on Indian nationalism in today’s day and age…

Originally Answered On Quora Boy. I’m writing on something controversial and political after long, it does make me a bit nervous. At the top of my head, it all boils down to a few fundamental reasons- The ever-expanding list of what constitutes ‘Islamophobia’ The ‘Imagined Order of Islam’ cutting through…

First and foremost, it is a fallacy to say that the past few years have seen a RW take over across the world. Truth is, the past decade has been associated with an anti-establishment wave, rather than a RW one. …

Indian politics since independence has had a weird fascination towards agriculture. Now, self sufficiency in grains was a major achievement of independent India, but the kind of romanticism that exists has dumbfounded me. Truth (however harsh it may be) is, Indian politicians and voting patterns of agriculturalists in large parts…

How liberalism ends up meaning quite the opposite of what it literally means Well, let’s go through this one step at a time. Let me introduce you to some basic tenets of debating- firstly, you always keep the discussion in the middle ground. …