Kaushlesh Rai

Kaushlesh Rai is the founder of The Dossier and The Hindu Cafe. He writes simply as an ordinary Hindu searching for ways in which a civilisation that survived centuries of Islamic and Christian conquest—battered but still alive—may not merely endure, but recover its confidence and former glory.

He said ‘regime change’

PRASHANT BHUSHAN leaned towards the microphone at the Press Club of India on 15 October. Around him sat Abhijeet Dipke of the Cockroach Janta...

Part II: Who wrote the caste question

An Indian sociologist’s untested idea went to Harvard as a hypothesis and came back as a fact

Part I: The caste question after a death

When a student dies on an Indian campus, the question is no longer how it could have been stopped, but what his caste was.

The homework the warriors skipped

India's self-appointed general-category activists intend to demolish a structure built over a century and a half. They have not yet worked out how it was put up.

The arithmetic of division: how the cure preserved the disease?

The Indian state promised to abolish caste while attaching ever greater rewards to caste identity

Socialism ensures paper leaks never stop

I read a book 5-6 years ago. In it, the author had written that in the coming years, it would become almost impossible to...

How the left manufactures a revolution

Every few years a protest arrives that we are told is spontaneous. Nobody organised it, we are informed; it simply erupted. The people had...

Why India should designate Hamas a terrorist organisation

In the last week of June 2026, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is often regarded as the "Super PM" during the UPA...

Why doesn’t Congress want the Great Nicobar Project to become a reality for India?

If you have been following the US-Israel vs Iran war, I need not tell you about the Strait of Hormuz. A strait that allowed...

Homi Bhabha did what America couldn’t

Something very significant happened in Tamil Nadu in the first week of April 2026 and you aren’t aware of it. On the 6th of...