Skip To Main Content
Arun Ram on Muck Rack

Arun Ram

As seen in: MSN India, MSN UK, The Economic Times, The Times of India, arXiv, India Times, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, India Today, The Hindu Business Line and

Get in touch with Arun

Contact Arun, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Articles

Why we should go back to school once in a while

|
By Arun Ram
| Outliers: A TOI+ series
Tied to the newsroom, I often turn down invitations to events. Mornings are too early, evenings are peak newspaper production time. But when it comes to interactions with young people, especially students, I try to make time. I find campus visits not just nostalgic but reinvigorating too. Gen Z never ceases to amuse and amaze me, but last week was something new: an hour with Gen Alpha at an international school in Chennai.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Freedom we don't want

|
By Arun Ram
| Outliers: A TOI+ series
Every Independence Day , the word ‘freedom’ gets dissected in different ways. Freedom from colonial rule, freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom to dissent. And then, there is another version of freedom that we encounter: the freedom to do as one pleases, regardless of what it does to everyone else. That is anarchy masquerading. As India steps into its 81st year of Independence, here are four types of freedom we could do with a little less of.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Vijay’s style: Lose the battle, win the war

|
By Arun Ram
| Outliers: A TOI+ series
Politicians are among the most diligent practitioners of the maxim “pick your battles”. Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay appears to have picked one he cannot win in Parliament, so he can win something more valuable at home. The meeting with Tamil Nadu MPs that the TVK govt convened on Aug 8 to discuss the Union govt’s delimitation plan to rework Lok Sabha representation was unlikely to draw most MPs. As TOI reported a day earlier, DMK, AIADMK, PMK, DMDK and MNM had decided to stay away.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?
See all 392 licensed articles (597 Total)