HeyJaredManu Joseph
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 12
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- Sep 27, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Manu Joseph: Psychobabble has taken a toll on conversation—it’s getting mind-numbingly dull | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The self-improvement of other people has ruined conversations for me. Increasingly, when they speak of human nature and the mind, they speak in labels and concepts. There was a time when I had to only suffer friends who had newly learnt of “yin and yang” and some affluent underworked people who were “burnt out.” Now I have to endure “inner child,” “the fawn,” “demons,” “safe space” and “are you emotionally available
Manu Joseph: When the whole world seems uprooted, what can we call home? | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On Wednesday, I got a free upgrade to first class, but the aircraft seats were so angled towards the windows that I could not make eye contact with those who were making their way to the coach. Otherwise, it was an enjoyable and auspicious start to my life as a homeless person. I plan to wander across five advanced economies on visitor visas, slipping into the mothership, India, now and then. The countries that offe
Manu Joseph: There is a reason we should trust the word of the RSS when it says good things | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Those who dislike the saffron crowd often lampoon their silliest political habit, which is that they hold the Congress accountable for what Jawaharlal Nehru did to India’s economy. But the anti-saffrons have a similar problem—they hold the entire history of the Hindu movement against the present of its mother ship, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Every time it asserts the right of Muslims to exist as equal In
Manu Joseph: Those of us who know how to live have no place to live in the country | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a muddy lane in Gurugram, I approach a speed breaker that is half a metre high. I am not being figurative; it really is half a metre high. It’s not a mound or any other natural feature of the ground; it is a man-made speed breaker on which a low-clearing Ferrari can become a seesaw. My heart aches in fondness watching its primordial bearing. Some minutes later, I see a road sign in English that has been nailed in
Manu Joseph: Abstract issues are still around but something else is now stirring Indians | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When I tell Indians that we have immense stamina for useless issues, no one asks me to explain ‘useless.’ Even people who disagree that the issues are useless miraculously know what they are. Including the politician Subramanian Swamy, who began to smile when I asked him why Indians spend so much energy on useless things. He told me identity was not useless. This helps us frame the meaning of useless issues—things t
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