Infinity Inklings

What if the answer to religious nationalism isn’t less religion?

Kerala’s recent elections suggest that a healthier alternative to fundamentalism may not be the absence of faith, but a more confident way of living…

May 13 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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April 2026

Inside Hyderabad’s ‘Visa Temple’

At Chilkur Balaji, prayer offers a sense of control in a country where outcomes often feel uncertain

Apr 29 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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I was stopped by India's last Naxals. They were kids with a bamboo pole

India just officially declared victory over a 60-year Maoist insurgency. Here's what that looks like on the ground

Apr 8 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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March 2026

Why is there a Japanese-funded Cathedral in India’s most Baptist state?

A church in Nagaland designed like a tribal house, paid for by Japanese war families, and built on the battlefield of the Stalingrad of the East

Mar 25 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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Who mediates when the mediator gets bombed?

The Middle East is at war again. The country that spent fifty years keeping back-channels open just got caught in the crossfire.

Mar 4 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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February 2026

The violence that wears a halo

REVIEW: How Buddhist nationalism across South and Southeast Asia turned a religion associated with peace into an instrument of majoritarian power

Feb 18 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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January 2026

72 hours in the Pink City

Learning to see beyond monuments and milestones at Anantara Jewel Bagh, Jaipur

Jan 28 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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I’ve been having situationships with cities all my life

On choosing elusivity instead of exclusivity

Jan 14 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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December 2025

What sleeping above the rear wheel of an overnight bus taught me

A year-end letter — and 50% off for the holidays

Dec 24, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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Vegetables™

How empire turns shared culture into private property

Dec 17, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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How do I explain a god with an elephant head to my foreign friends?

On the impossible task of translating a civilisation in real time

Dec 3, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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November 2025

Why I'm finally writing what every South Asian son thinks but never sends

Because some things are easier to write in a newsletter than say at the dinner table

Nov 19, 2025 • Nishad Sanzagiri

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