History adorns itself with its oldest habit- hierarchy, and inequality, its most faithful shadow. One thing that remains constant with every civilisation, religion, and government is power imbalance, and whenever such imbalances strutted around too confidently, satire has emerged with sharpened words as a humbling weapon. Illustration by The Geostrata Particularly in the Indian context, where social, religious, and political stratification have long shaped the public imaginat

The Two-Nation Theory, which posits that Muslims and Hindus constitute two distinct nations, was more than a religious or political...

The region, defined with a spiritless title of ‘Hindi Belt’, has always held a vibrant significance in the nation-building process of...