HeyJaredUnpolarised
Your gateway to not be polarised by the narratives (left, right or center) floating around. Ram Iyer tries to break down the different facets of any major issue into chewable pieces and help you assimilate the information.
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Democracy and the Four Patterns (opens the original)
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One pleasant morning in Chennai, I wake up to a message from my cousin. Expecting to read a new story, I open the document only to see a 20-page essay. It instantly wakes me up, not because it is something shocking, but because this is something I never expected her to write about. Two weeks later, we meet in Bengaluru to discuss the coincidence: of what I had written around the same time, and the essay itself. Hear my sister break down the four patterns she saw in people when talking about gove
The Sovereign Subject: How Colonial Machinery and Ancient Conditioning Undermine Constitutional Democracy (opens the original)
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India carries a civilizational inheritance spanning thousands of years—languages, philosophies, sciences, spiritual traditions, and systems of law that governed social conduct long before any modern constitution existed. Today, we are the world’s largest democracy. By sheer scale and diversity, that alone is remarkable. Yet the question persists: is India truly a democracy? Not in the procedural sense (elections happen, votes are counted, governments form). But in the substantive sense: Do the p
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