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The New Indian Express
10 Jun '26The Pioneer
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08 Oct '2577 op-eds and columns
The New Indian Express
10 Jun '26 Being without being | Acharya Prashant | Best Seller Author
The Pioneer
21 May '26 "The ego is terrified of groundlessness, so it grabs a chair. It clings to labels because labels give it continuity. When someone says, ‘I am a Leftist’ or ‘I am a Rightist,’ this is not identity but insecurity. The chair is a crutch. The row is a refuge. The ego loves ideology because ideology is a respectable form of bondage. The real question is not Left versus Right. You were not born to sit on the Left or the Right. You were born to stand free."
The Pioneer
04 Apr '26 "If the ego is always filtering information through what it has already decided to protect, then what does misinformation actually mean? Both misinformation and disinformation assume a stable, agreed-upon baseline of truth against which the falseness of a given claim can be measured. This is the assumption that has not been examined."
The Pioneer
21 Mar '26 "Democracy does not give you what you want—it gives you what you are.
A hard look at how the voter’s inner state shapes the nation more than any leader ever can."
The Pioneer
14 Mar '26 “War is not only a humanitarian disaster; it is also an environmental one. Modern warfare devours fuel, burns cities, poisons soil and air, and leaves behind scars that last far longer than the battles themselves. Even as nations pledge to fight climate change, the machinery of war continues to run on a scale that quietly undermines those very promises.”
The Pioneer
07 Mar '26 "The inner condition that produces belligerent foreign policy is the same one that produces the epidemic of depression, anxiety, addiction, and inner purposelessness that's become the defining psychological signature of the most militarily powerful societies on earth. You cannot burn your neighbour’s house and rest in peace, not because of some mystical law, but because the act of burning changes the one who burns."
The Pioneer
24 Feb '26 "Every rebellion imagines itself as the subject of history: we, the people, are acting; we are choosing; we are remaking the world. But look more carefully, and a disturbing possibility emerges. The crowd that fills the streets is not the author of the revolution"
The Pioneer
14 Feb '26 "Every few years, a similar pattern keeps repeating. A set of names tumbles into public view, and the world performs its ritual of shock. And then, quietly, the cycle completes itself: the outrage fades, the names are absorbed into the archives, and the pattern continues."
The Pioneer
07 Feb '26 "If one relies on events, shock is guaranteed, again and again, because most misdeeds never come fully to light. Scandals are not reliable teachers. If one understands the principle, shock loses its grip, because what unfolds is recognised rather than discovered."
The Pioneer
31 Jan '26 “Revolutions always promise change, and they usually deliver something that merely looks like change. Regimes collapse, flags are replaced, slogans change, but something remains untouched. The question we refuse to ask is simple: when the wheel turns again, what will have changed?”
The Pioneer
24 Jan '26 "Without self-enquiry, rationalism turns outward-only. It scrutinizes religion, superstition, tradition, politics, and the beliefs of others, but it never pauses to examine the psychological centre doing the scrutinizing. The ego remains untouched, and rationality becomes its armour."
The Pioneer
17 Jan '26 "The believer says ‘Exists’ and clutches scripture, the atheist says ‘No’ and clutches logic. In either case, the ego experiences some relief after speaking. In questioning the existence of God, the ego successfully hides its own non-existence."
The Pioneer
10 Jan '26 "Violence never arrives announcing itself as violence. It arrives wrapped in reasons and slogans, in duty, in faith, in law, in nation, and demands that you honour it as necessary. It extracts your moral consent first, and only then does it spill blood."
Deccan Herald
09 Jan '26 People run from it into noise and distraction and shallow bonds. But running only makes it worse. Suppressed pain does not heal; it festers.
The Pioneer
03 Jan '26 "What we call new is almost always the old in fresh wrapping. The calendar changes; the person does not. A digit shifts from five to six, yet the one who reads it remains imprisoned in the same patterns, the same desires, the same fears. New programmes, new resolutions, new routines: none of it works, because we have tried all of it before in different forms."
The Pioneer
27 Dec '25 "As generally practised, culture is not wisdom; it is repetition. It is behaviour carried forward because it was once useful, once meaningful, once powerful, or simply because it has not yet been questioned. It belongs to the past by definition. It has momentum because it becomes society’s collective habit."
The Pioneer
20 Dec '25 "The test is straightforward. Whatever aligns with Shruti is dharma. Whatever defies Shruti, however old or beloved, is not. Shruti demands only one thing: self-knowledge. Everything else is ornamental."
The Pioneer
13 Dec '25 “When a society changes what it respects, the economy changes what it produces, because output is only the shadow of values. If status comes from owning, life becomes a showroom, politics becomes the management of craving, and relationships become transactions. If status comes from understanding and contribution, people step out of the consumptive spell, not through forced austerity but because they stop trying to buy an identity.”
Deccan Herald
02 Dec '25 Life appears full of conflicting possibilities because the mind itself is full of conflicting tendencies. We do not really know what we stand for, or from where our wants arise.
The Pioneer
29 Nov '25 "Yes, the planet is overpopulated, but not merely with human bodies. It is overpopulated with high‑consumption lifestyles and with the ideals that glorify them. The way we are living, every additional human birth often means one more wound to the forests, the rivers, the climate, and the other species that must make space for us. When one more human is added in this prevailing culture of ignorant consumption, the rest of existence has one more burden to carry."