saahas is the name i write politics under, and the map of ideologies, india after gandhi and every political essay in the drawer belong to it
saahas, साहस, couragePunch up at power, punch sideways at culture, never punch down at poverty.
every ideology on its own terms, mapped, placed in history and tested against what you actually believe
- the fieldevery major ideology on two axes, collective to market and liberty to authority
- the worldwhich systems governed each country, year by year from 1900 to 2026
- the rootsa family tree of where ideas came from and what they went on to shape
- the testfifty questions on your values, scored on six hidden axes, with a card you can share
the six hidden axes the test scores you onmarket and stateliberty and orderequality and meritnation and worldtradition and changegrowth and ecology
a video essay series on the distance between gandhi’s moral philosophy and the way india talks to itself now
Most Indians do not hate Gandhi. They just do not want his price.
A society can survive poverty. But it cannot survive the absence of shared restraint.
That is not arrogance. That is hygiene.
part one, the lost moral vocabulary, is scripted at about ten minutes and in the drawer
the rest of it, out in the world or still in the drawer
- on linkedinQuick commerce, widening the blue-white collar chasmtwelve million gig workers, riders breathing PM2.5 for under ₹15,000 a month, and the question of whether we needed this habit at all
- on linkedinChampions jaa rahe hain185 million watched the 2025 women’s final, so stop marketing champions as a charity case, even if your capitalism is bigger than your feminism
- on linkedinMy grandfather and Milkha Singhsame age at partition, same odd jobs, and only one of them could run very fast
- in the drawerYou Think You’re Special. So Why Do You Act Like Everyone Else?a video essay, scripted at nine to eleven minutes
- in the drawerWhy collective matters to mean essay