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1. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

   Change, one joke at a time (opens the original)

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   For the first time in my adult life, I have serious FOMO: the ovarian lottery locked me out of India’s most radical generation in years. Still, as an xennial (the age-sensitive term for someone born on the northern side of the 70s), I’m downright breathless from watching how our students met revolt with humour, injustice with tenderness, and apathy with action. Views expressed above are the author's own. ‘Centrism isn’t nostalgia, it is survival’ Rethinking stray dogs: From crisis to opportunity

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

   Metamorphosis nobody expected from young cockroaches (opens the original)

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   In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis , protagonist Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as a cockroach. His family is horrified not by the transformation, but the prospect of his sheer unemployability. In India, cockroaches – the higher judicial term for India’s young and jobless – woke up and discovered that they had been transformed: Into people. Dissent, the right to organise, the ability to speak truth to power had, overnight, made them human. This revelation was not to themselves – they always w

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