Yashwant Singh, at The Blogs

Jun 11, 2026, 1:18 PM

Turkey and Transnational Illiberalism. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Turkey, Transnational Illiberalism, and the Poverty of Our Political Vocabulary There is a particular kind of danger that arrives not as an army but as a narrative, one that does not breach a border so much as dissolve the very...

Jun 9, 2026, 5:59 PM

Shivaji in Israel and the Return of Civilizational Time

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1630–1680) in Israel. AI Illustration (Credit: ChatGPT)

A statue isn’t merely a decoration or a tribute, it’s a claim about what history means. When Rome erected statues of conquered kings, it was saying: your memory belongs to us now. When revolutionaries pull down statues, they are...

Jun 7, 2026, 5:39 PM

The Seal and the River of Time

The Pashupati Seal A 4,300-year-old steatite seal found at Mohenjo-daro. May 27, 2026 (Source Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, X.)

A Meditation on the Pashupati Seal, the Indian Civilizational Continuum, and What Humanity Owes to the Clay’s Memory The Undeciphered Witness There are objects that survive. Then there are objects that remember. The Pashupati Seal of Mohenjo-daro, carved from steatite, no larger...

Jun 2, 2026, 10:18 AM

Beyond Patronage: The People as Custodians of the Nation

The People as Custodians of the Nation. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Partha Chatterjee’s political society, Hindu democratic agency, and the West Bengal verdict of 2026 The Framework and Its Horizon For more than two decades, Partha Chatterjee’s (2004) distinction between civil society and political society has done more to clarify the actual texture of democracy in...

Jun 1, 2026, 4:25 AM

The Indispensable Dyad: India, Israel, and the Architecture of Durable Order

India-Israel - The Indispensable Dyad. AI Image (Credit: ChatGPT)

India-Israel bilateral partnership constitutes the dyad around which any genuinely wartime-resilient Eurasian economic corridor must organize. This is not a diplomatic preference. It is a structural conclusion. Every serious analyst of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) has asked the...

May 24, 2026, 6:35 PM

Gaay, Gayatri, Gita

Krishna and Cowherd. AI Image. (Credit: ChatGPT)

On the Sanctity of the Cow and the Grammar of Civilizational Love Before philosophy, there was milk. Before the child could receive the Gayatri mantra, that solar hymn breathed into young ears at dawn, before the young man could sit with...

May 22, 2026, 4:03 AM

The Great Nicobar Project and India’s Return to Itself

The longue durée of Indo-maritime stewardship. AI image. (Credit: ChatGPT)

The longue durée of Indo-maritime stewardship - where the Mauryan embrace of statecraft, the Chola command of the Indian Ocean, and the Srivijayan trade networks India anchored, these are not ornaments, but the actual case for why India building...

May 17, 2026, 1:09 PM

Bhojshala: The Living Wound of Indian Memory

Arcade of the pillared hall known as the Bhoj Shala. 7 September 2021, Saumysbag (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

On a Monument That Is Also a Civilization’s Unfinished Argument With Itself “Yā Kundendutusārahāradhavalā, yā śubhravastrāvṛtā.” She who is white as jasmine, white as the moon, white as the garland of Kunda flowers - Goddess Saraswati. The Error of the Monument We...

Apr 27, 2026, 5:52 PM

The Ideological Tax on India-Israel Innovation

India-Israel Joint Innovation. AI Image. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Across the world’s research institutions, a levy is being extracted on collaboration with Israel. India has a rare chance to refuse payment and profit from those who won’t

Apr 14, 2026, 1:14 AM

Strategic Irreversibility: Why India Cannot Afford to Walk Away From Israel

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the Startup Exhibition and interacting with innovators and Startup CEOs at iCreate Center, at Deo Dholera Village, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on January 17, 2018. Photo Credit: PIB on behalf of Prime Minister's Office, Government of India.

The call for India to “distance itself from Israel” (for example, an opinion piece published on March 31, 2026, by India’s former foreign secretary) sounds, on the surface, like a principled foreign policy position. It invokes the language of...

About Me

Yashwant Singh is a sociologist, served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at GITAM (Deemed to be) University, Bengaluru Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He holds an M.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests include urban sociology and the sociology of development.