An Ignorant Teen’s Response to the Rise of Modern Fascism

The Rise of Fascism in Modern India

“There’s something pitiable about a people that constantly bemoans its leaders. If they’ve let us down, it’s only because we’ve allowed them to. It could be argued that civil society has failed its leaders as much as leaders have failed civil society. We have to accept that there is a dangerous, systemic flaw in our parliamentary democracy that politicians will exploit. ” – Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Injustice.

Today, Indian politics often seems to be just another topic to joke about at the dinner table. Something for the Eastern world to laugh at and the Western world to stare at, utterly confused. If an outsider is looking for anything else to be confused about in India (other than of course the religious hypocrisy and the various vernaculars), he can find it in politics. For me, as an outsider-insider Indian looking at my own nation from half way across the world.. you can only imagine my confusion.

Global History: Creating a Nation of Idiots

I hate my Global Studies class. I mean, no. Let me start over. I like my class and my teacher is pretty amazing too. But our curriculum, our textbooks, review books, practice questions and the rest of that mess are horrible. I mean it’s supposedly “Global” studies but all it does is mock 80% of the world. Some of it just makes me so mad, even when the subject has no connection to me. My friend asked me why I care and honestly, I don’t know why. But these few days have just completely annoyed me. And since I only write on this thing when I’m annoyed, here you go… my disorganized mess of thoughts.