Politics – The Vigilant Mind

General Politics…

When Journalism is Sold: Lessons from India

5 Dec 20225 Dec 2022

In today's India, there are only two positions you can take. You are either a "nationalist" who limits their criticisms and stays with the majoritarian sentiment or an "anti-national" subject…

Indian Politics…

Rebuilding Indian Democracy

“However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However, bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing…

Indian Politics…

The Need to Abolish or Amend Sedition and UAPA Laws

Imagine yourself as an activist or journalist from a minority community in India or a Hindu who happens to not be from the so-called “upper-caste.” Then, as a concerned citizen…

Indian Politics…

Duties Before Rights or Rights Before Duties?

21 Jan 202226 Jan 2022

As India’s 73rd Republic Day approaches, I want to commemorate this event with thoughts and callings that address important issues do due justice to the theme of the Republic Day—celebrating…

General Politics…

Are Performative Activists and Slacktivists Benefitting Society?

19 Nov 202119 Nov 2021

You are scrolling through social media. Appearing between memes and interests every now and then are a few political posts. Some of these are memes, some comprehensive posts, and some…

Indian Politics…

Are Indian Liberals Hinduphobic?

1 Aug 20211 Aug 2021

What is Hinduphobia At a United Nations General Assembly conference in 2020 discussing religious freedom and tolerance, the Indian representative called the rest of the world out on their ignorance…

Other Important Community Topics…

Should Cancel Culture be Cancelled?

In a world of numerous injustices, deep social divides, and many changes still desired, social media justice warriors have become more proactive. For many, groupthink, conformity, aggression, and cancel culture…

General Politics…

The Cost of Being Apolitical

As we spend hours in social science classes, we live under the impression that we have come a long way from history and progressed in life. War, politics, religions, and…

The author, Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui, has been interested in advocating for social causes since 2014. The alarming news during the Islamic month of Ramadan in 2014 where bombs were dropped on Gaza was a wake up call that reaffirmed that there was a world beyond gaming. This incident moved Amaan redirecting him towards youth activism and social sciences.

Since then, he has written many pieces targeting primarily young readers on matters of self-awareness, self-improvement, and other individual and personal affairs, social causes, various aspects of society, religion, politics and global affairs and even poetry.

Amaan is a strong advocate of peace, global unity, globally minded citizenship, feminism, philanthropy, social service etc. This blog is his primary platform to advocate for all that he wishes to stand for.

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