Vinay Thakkar

Thinking out loud on politics, economics & philosophy

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Ideas that resist easy answers. Writing that takes its time. Notes from someone trying to understand how the world actually works — not how we're told it does.

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What Markets Can't Tell You About Value

On the limits of price as a signal — and what gets lost when we stop asking deeper questions about worth.

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Power Without Accountability Is Just Violence With Better Branding

A short essay on why institutions that cannot be questioned eventually become the thing they were built to prevent.

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The Argument From Consequences Is Almost Always Wrong

We justify too many things by pointing to their outcomes. But consequences are slippery, contested, and usually arrive too late to matter.

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India's Middle Class Doesn't Want Justice. It Wants Order.

A provocation: the Indian middle class has confused stability with fairness for so long that it can no longer tell them apart.

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