A Shaw

A Shaw is a communications graduate and an independent researcher working at the intersection of narrative sovereignty, civilisational history, and national security. Shaw is the author of One Year After Baisaran Valley: Abu Musa Kashmiri's Confession and Its Doctrinal-Strategic Implications for India (2026).
Religion

The Bengali who eats meat during Durga Puja is no less a Hindu

Every Navratri, someone says it again: meat must not be eaten while the Devi is worshipped. It is said from katha stages, on television...
Politics

Part III: India for sale

The cultural front — magazines, books, cinema and the manufacture of legitimacy
Religion

At four, Bengal wakes to celebrate the cosmic war

For three centuries, many have tried to own Durga Puja. None has.
Politics

Had Smit Machchhar died, the ‘saffron terror’ smear was ready

An Omani co-pilot attacked an Indian captain at 30,000 feet. Wounded, the captain still opened the door. Israel and India praised him, and so...
Politics

Part II: India for sale

The institution — Ford, Rockefeller and the architecture of development
Politics

Page 112: How Khudiram became a terrorist in a Bengal schoolbook 

How Rowlatt's word outlived the empire, and love of the land became “jingoism”
Politics

Part I: India for sale

The state — intelligence, political money and strategic dependence, 1947–1991
Politics

Why the Kashmiri Pandits won’t stop getting killed in the Valley

In August 2026, a letter began circulating with the kind of detail no distant propagandist could invent. It named roughly half a dozen Kashmiri...
Media

How India’s critical media actually works

Funding, serving interests and the politics behind independent media
Politics

Why Vande Mataram remains contested even after 80 years

God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilisation were...
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