Akhileshwar’s Substack

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By Akhileshwar Sahay

· Launched a year ago

I AKHIL VAANI | DAILY LONG FORM SERIES — VOLUME 48 | A MONOGRAPH | TOWERING INFERNO: THE NATION THAT KEEPS BURNING

How India learned to count its fire dead — and forgot to keep them alive

20 hrs ago•Akhileshwar Sahay

I AKHIL VAANI DAILY LONG FORM SERIES · VOLUME 47 I BHARAT WATCH: THE THEFT THAT LEAVES NO FOOTPRINT

India's Galloping Cyber-Crime Epidemic, the Anatomy of the New Predator, and the Long Road to a Cyber-Crime-Proof Bharat

Jun 22•Akhileshwar Sahay

I AKHIL VAANI - DAILY LONG FORM 46 I WHEN THE CLOUDS FORGET THEIR DUTY : BHARAT'S MONSOON GAMBLE AND THE WATER RECKONING IT CONCEALS

A 41% monsoon shortfall and reservoirs barely a quarter full are not weather story. They are an X-ray of Bharr having lived on borrowed water for eight…

Jun 21•Akhileshwar Sahay

AKHIL VAANI DAILY LONG FORM SERIES · VOLUME 45 · SUNDAY EDITION · THE EXPANDED BIOGRAPHY OF KAMA · PART TWO OF FOUR

The World’s Most Misread Book, the Temple Walls of Khajuraho, the Great Refusal of the Buddha, and the Parallel Lives of Desire from Athens to Babylon

Jun 20•Akhileshwar Sahay

IAKHIL VAANI DAILY LONG FORM SERIES- VOLUME 44 I LONG FORM VOLUME 44 I MANAGING ONE SELF- PART THREE: ANGER MANAGEMENT

Anger Management: The Fire I Have Carried, and the Long Work of Putting It Out

Jun 20•Akhileshwar Sahay

I AKHIL VAANI DAILY LONG FORM SERIES · VOLUME 43 · GLOBAL WATCH PART TWO I THE STOLEN CHILDHOOD: THE SCREEN, THE CHILD AND THE GREAT…

Governments from Canberra to London to Delhi are racing to ban social media for under-sixteens. But does a ban protect children, or merely perform it …

Jun 19•Akhileshwar Sahay

I AKHIL VAANI · DAILY LONG FORM SERIES · VOLUME 42 · URBAN WATCH I THE URBAN GOVERNANCE DEFICIT IN THE RUN-UP TO VIKSIT BHARAT 2047

Why a Nation Cannot Be Developed While Its Cities Remain Constitutional Orphans

Jun 18•Akhileshwar Sahay

I AKHIL VAANI · DAILY LONG FORM SERIES · VOLUME 41 I ONE EVERY THIRTY-SIX MINUTES IN 2024 UP FROM ONE EVERY FORTY MINUTES IN 2022

India’s Student-Suicide Emergency, the Supreme Court’s National Task Force, and the Case That Zero Suicide Is Not a Utopian Goal

Jun 17•Akhileshwar Sahay