Author: TARUN GOYAL
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Why India Is Secular: The Hindu Roots of An Indian Idea
India’s Constitution did not invent its secularism. It inherited it. For thousands of years the dominant tradition of this land has said that truth is one and the paths are many. This essay makes the case that the Hindu way of seeing the world is the deepest reason the Republic could be, and remains, a…
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Concept of Men: Patriarchy & Women
Patriarchy in India is not only something men do to women. It is a lesson, taught with love in nearly every home, by fathers, mothers and sisters alike. This essay traces how a boy learns that he comes first, and how men and women can unlearn it together.
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THE DIPLOMACY OF SILENCE
Vaichariki: Power & Diplomacy There is an old convention in diplomacy that the most consequential sentence in a joint statement is often the one that is missing from it. Communiques are read the way physicians read X-rays, not for what is visible but for what should have been there and is not. A paragraph on…
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Alliances Are Not Friendships
States do not have friends. They have interests, and for as long as two states’ interests point the same direction, they call the arrangement a partnership, an alliance, or a special relationship. The moment those interests diverge, so does the alliance, regardless of how many decades of shared history came before. From the Quincy Agreement…
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Why Empires Don’t Collapse Overnight ?
No empire has ever fallen in a single afternoon, however the history books compress it. Rome, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the British, and the Soviets each took decades, sometimes centuries, to unwind. The pattern beneath all five is the same: fiscal exhaustion, legitimacy erosion, elite defection, and military overstretch, working together long before anyone declares…
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What Makes an Order “Sovereign” ?
Order and sovereignty are not the same thing. Rome’s citizenship grants, the doctrine of paramountcy over princely India, and the League of Nations mandate system each show what happens when a system has real administrative order but not real sovereignty, and what separates the two turns out to matter as much today as it did…
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THE THORIUM BET: How India is Betting Its Energy Future
India possesses one of the world’s largest identified thorium resource bases but thorium cannot simply be loaded into a reactor and burned. This article examines India’s seven-decade three-stage nuclear programme, the role of the PFBR at Kalpakkam, the uranium-233 fuel cycle, and the engineering challenges standing between India’s thorium reserves and large-scale nuclear power.
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The Economics of Oil Crisis: Who Benefits from Chaos ?
When a chokepoint burns and a pipeline falls silent, the ledger tightens for one and loosens for another. A Vaichariki essay asking who truly benefits from crisis, and why the easy answer isn’t always the true one.