Aakash Joshi
aakash.joshi@expressindia.com
Articles By Aakash Joshi
Forwarded as Received: Wait and Watch
In which WhatsApp Uncle tells the young ’uns a thing or two about ‘freedom of expression’.
Forwarded as Received: The Final Countdown
This chunaav season, the real agni pariksha is not just for the incumbent party, but also for the janta janardan — the voters.
View From The Neighbourhood
A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent. Curated by Aakash Joshi.
Forwarded as Received: Striking When the Iron is Hot
WhatsApp Uncle rises above petty politics and stands by Bharat mata and Bharat sarkar in fighting enemy nation.
View From The Neighbourhood: Paradigm shift
Muhammad Amir Rana, a security analyst, argues that both India and Pakistan need eschew rhetoric and move from a discourse of warfare to one of “strategic realism”:
Forwarded as Received: Crazy Kind of Love
What Valentine’s Day? Love the national way, like our very own Kamadeva, says WhatsApp Uncle.
View From The Neighbourhood: Petulant diplomacy
This “narrow communal approach” though, will not help the cause of peace in the Subcontinent, according to the editorial. After the elections, it hopes, a government that can further peace will come to office in New Delhi.
Forwarded as Received: The Season of Ingratitude
When your own people fail you, what can you do, asks WhatsApp Uncle.
View From The Neighbourhood: Pak policy 101
A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent.
Forwarded as received: Who Moved My Seat?
Finally, ‘merit’ has found a friend in aarakshan. But why then is WhatsApp Uncle unhappy?
View From The Neighbourhood: Bollywood, Pakistan
"Pakistan-bashing still continues to sell when nothing else does” in India, writes an Islamabad-based TV journalist in The Express Tribune.
Anwar Ibrahim in India on 5-day visit: ‘India must make itself heard on issues like Rohingya crisis’
Malaysia’s PM-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim says fear of Kashmir issue being raked up should not stop Delhi from speaking out
View from the neighbourhood
A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent.
Forwarded as Received: Who Let the Cows Out?
This must truly be a new year. Because WhatsApp Uncle seems to be in the mood to ask some tough questions of new India.
There was a sense that the Emergency was a loss of manhood: Gyan Prakash
Historian Gyan Prakash on why he wrote a book on 1975, and the constitutional crisis that led to it.
View from the neighbourhood
A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent.
A life of unfulfilled dreams is not all bad
A life of unfulfilled dreams is the lot for most of us. And while the regrets remain, it’s not all bad.
Forwarded as Received: Who Spilled My Milk?
In which WhatsApp Uncle bemoans the dilution of the first true ‘Make in India’ project.
Statues As Selfies
Today, a politician is also a product. Can brand equity override ideological moorings?
View From The Neighbourhood: No violence
A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent.
