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Sanjoy Chakravorty

ARTICLES BY SANJOY CHAKRAVORTY

Vijay is the most recent Indian name on a list of people who seemingly came from nowhere to win against established parties. (PTI)

Youthquake: what explains the rising political appeal of outsider candidates?

4 min read . 11 Jun 2026

The belief that the real-estate sector and tourism form the foundation of Dubai’s economy is flimsy. (AP)

Why reports of Dubai’s death are greatly exaggerated

4 min read . 13 May 2026

Leadership in the US will change with the election cycle. ( @WhiteHouse/X)

The world looks chaotic but this needn’t be a turning point in history

4 min read . 08 Apr 2026

The issue of mass surveillance and erosion of individual privacy by the state has become increasingly urgent, almost in lock-step with the digitalization of information. (istockphoto)

Anthropic’s warning shot on AI surveillance demands our attention

4 min read . 11 Mar 2026

Stanley Kubrick made the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Dr Strangelove returns as New Start expires and MAD logic creeps back

4 min read . 11 Feb 2026

'Tariff' is the word that roiled the world in 2025, which US President Donald Trump dubbed 'the most beautiful word'. (AP)

And the word of the year for 2025 is…

4 min read . 07 Jan 2026

Tesla's chief Elon Musk recently made radical predictions about the future of work. (REUTERS)

How seriously can we take Musk’s vision of a leisure society created by AI?

4 min read . 11 Dec 2025

What we have witnessed for the last nine months is a test of wills between two fundamentally different views of market power. (istockphoto)

A King Kong vs Godzilla fight in the world of trade—Guess who won?

4 min read . 12 Nov 2025

Dissonance between politics and markets is not new, nor unique to the US. (Bloomberg)

America’s H-1B policy: A clash between ideology and market reality

4 min read . 15 Oct 2025

At IIT Kharagpur, students were mandated to comply with “vegetarian and non-vegetarian seating arrangements.” (istockphoto)

From campus canteens to city streets: Is modern India reinforcing caste divides?

4 min read . 17 Sept 2025

The intent of the ‘One Nation, One Election’ is to have the Lok Sabha election for central government formation coincide with all Vidhan Sabha elections. (HT)

One Nation, One Election: Does it reflect an Indian way of thinking?

5 min read . 17 Aug 2025

Mamdani's win has exposed the deep corruption at the party's top levels. (Getty Images via AFP)

What the rise of Mamdani in New York means for America’s Democratic Party

5 min read . 22 Jul 2025

Caste demography represents a massive and critical gap in India’s self-knowledge. (AP)

Sanjoy Chakravorty: A caste census is a Pandora’s Box that we must open anyway

5 min read . 12 Jun 2025

What we have come to call ‘fake news’ about war is not recent. (istockphoto)

Truth is the first casualty of war: Old wisdom with a new twist

4 min read . 14 May 2025

To uphold the core democratic principle of equal representation, each seat in the Lok Sabha is constitutionally mandated to represent roughly the same number of people. (Hindustan Times)

India’s dilemmas of delimitation go beyond unequal representation

5 min read . 14 Apr 2025

Apple is considered a master of supply chain management. (AP)

Drop ‘Made in’ labels: They’re a major reason for today’s trade war

5 min read . 16 Mar 2025

Trump has taken a hammer to these building blocks of modern existence. (AP)

Anarchy or autocracy: What exactly is the Trump presidency aiming for?

5 min read . 16 Feb 2025

America's IT sector has grown massively in the last three decades.

America’s H-1B visa is vital to US interests—and suits India too

5 min read . 15 Jan 2025

In some fields, it is commonplace for complete unknowns to rise to the top. Politics is the most obvious of these.

Root for the complete unknown so that merit can overcome nepotism and cronyism

4 min read . 15 Dec 2024

The realignment of working classes from the left to the right of the political spectrum is likely to reverberate for decades in democracies. (REUTERS)

Trump’s return: There are many small reasons but three big ones

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024