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Manu Joseph

Mint columnist

Manu Joseph is a journalist, novelist, and the creator of the Netflix series, ‘Decoupled’

ARTICLES BY MANU JOSEPH

The sheer number of remarkable videos has reduced our shock and diminished our wonder.

Manu Joseph: What killed the amazing video? Did AI ruin ‘seeing is believing’?

4 min read . 11 Jan 2026

US President Donald Trump has put an end to at least one part of illegal immigration by instilling fear. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: Why the modern world may be doing much better than we think

4 min read . 04 Jan 2026

Presence of poverty should not hold us back from setting high standards.

Manu Joseph: Why India should treat all Indians as well-off rather than poor

4 min read . 29 Dec 2025

In Homebound, the two young men follow a path that would take them to a slightly better life.

Manu Joseph: Why modern poverty is much worse than it was in olden times

5 min read . 21 Dec 2025

'The New Yorker' can’t be imitated because its allure comes from the nature of prestige.

Manu Joseph: How ‘The New Yorker’ survived a century as a product of the elite

4 min read . 14 Dec 2025

Optically, cable bridges and undersea tunnels are a sort of vulgarity in a poor country, but they are needed as a mascot of where we are headed.

Manu Joseph: Why South Bombay is the only Indian city where life has improved

4 min read . 07 Dec 2025

A story has developed that across several Indian states, as the Election Commission of India pressures its officers to verify voter credentials, the stress has driven some of them to untimely deaths. (ANI)

Manu Joseph: No, our election booth level officers aren’t dying of stress

4 min read . 30 Nov 2025

Bill Gates’s shift in stance on climate change is a blow to the enormous funding of climate change. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: Why activism is allergic to the middle ground

4 min read . 23 Nov 2025

Recently, in Bengaluru and Chennai, too, the upper classes have publicly demanded a better life from the government. (Reuters / Bhawika Chhabra)

Manu Joseph: Why India’s urban elites are finally taking to the streets

4 min read . 16 Nov 2025

It won’t be easy for Zohran Mamdani to realize his plans. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: Can Zohran Mamdani’s rise make America fairer?

4 min read . 09 Nov 2025

In January this year, an article in The Guardian asked whether Netflix was deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling. (Pixabay)

Manu Joseph: The myth of our short attention span—and why it endures

4 min read . 02 Nov 2025

The over-articulation of some ‘concepts’ greatly contributes to people examining themselves a bit too much. (istockphoto)

Manu Joseph: Why poor mental health doesn't always have to have a reason

4 min read . 26 Oct 2025

The Nobel Prize is the resistance of art against commerce. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: Why is Nobel prize-winning literature so hard to read?

4 min read . 19 Oct 2025

There is a popular view that Israel is so aggressive because Jews have been historically persecuted in Europe. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: What gives Israel the courage to defy the world?

4 min read . 12 Oct 2025

A part of what made Jane Goodall endearing to ordinary people infuriated her own scientific establishment. (AP)

Manu Joseph: Jane Goodall and why we search for ourselves in animals

4 min read . 05 Oct 2025

Indian cinema is a world where there is almost no mention of film stars, films, singers, any other public figure or real-life events. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: Why Indian TV and cinema fail to capture India’s popular culture

4 min read . 28 Sept 2025

People seem to carry a parallel life in their minds where they react to injustice against them with imagined acts of violence. (istockphoto)

Manu Joseph: Why we fantasize about revenge but rarely act on it

5 min read . 21 Sept 2025

At the heart of all revolutions is the second rung of power, aristocracy, wealth or clergy, attempting to bring down those above them. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: The big myth about revolutions is that they’re all organic

4 min read . 14 Sept 2025

Many symbols of health are the exact opposite of health. (Getty Images via AFP)

Manu Joseph: Why the Ironman is a new symbol of health that’s unhealthy

4 min read . 07 Sept 2025

Many young women in India face a classic problem where their in-laws and husbands make many material demands and the bridal side yields to them, assuming that things will get better. (Instagram)

Manu Joseph: Evaluate people by their worst qualities, not their best

5 min read . 31 Aug 2025