Ritesh Kukrety

In 2014, India saw the formalised creation of Telangana, its 29th state. The creation of a separate state was supposedly done to herald a new age of progress for the region, which was supposedly shackled by the Andhra Pradesh state administration’s neglect. The move was celebrated in certain quarters as a ‘landmark’ victory for the people of Telangana. Most...

Despite all the posturing and chest thumping that Indians tend to indulge in, the truth remains that India is a long way off from becoming a developed country. In fact, even almost 70 years after our independence, this magnificent amalgamation of paradoxes that we call our nation still struggles to provide for the basic needs to its citizens. On...

It is a long-held belief that the Indian youth – those enthusiastic, driven creatures – will one day be the country’s salvation. That they, like prophets and messiahs of old, will sometime in the future trigger a transformation of such massive proportions that the country will emerge from the aftermath like a butterfly from its cocoon, finally ready to...

The fact that the Indian youth should be involved in politics has by now become an age-old rhetoric. Every single armchair political analyst has expostulated time and again the need for the younger populace to take up the reins, to become more involved – on a grassroots level – with the creation of a better, more transparent political ecosystem...