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Manu Joseph

Mint columnist

Manu Joseph is a journalist, novelist, and the creator of the Netflix series, ‘Decoupled’

ARTICLES BY MANU JOSEPH

Richard Dawkins, author of 'The God Delusion', is a famous atheist. (HT)

Manu Joseph: Why faith losing its hold won’t really change the world

4 min read . 22 Jun 2025

The political influence of Musk is impressive, but Fugger was at another level. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: What Elon Musk can learn from the ‘richest man ever’

5 min read . 15 Jun 2025

Not long ago, intellectuals like Arundhati Roy who challenged the state narrative were not expected to clarify that they were patriots. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: Why we must love the nation—are there other options?

5 min read . 08 Jun 2025

For the first time in decades, the young in all developing nations have been denied their American dream. (Getty Images via AFP)

Manu Joseph: Why Trump is right about student activism in America

4 min read . 01 Jun 2025

Once, flight attendants were disturbingly articulate, some were even brilliant, and many of them had the grace and elegance of professional models. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: This is why the flight attendant shouldn’t be a genius

5 min read . 25 May 2025

Some naive Anglicized writers try to see too much philosophy in what is just an etymological accident. (Pixabay)

Manu Joseph: It isn’t true that every language holds secret feelings

4 min read . 18 May 2025

The innocents of the world are neither good nor bad. (AP)

Manu Joseph: Just how ‘innocent’ are civilians during times of war?

4 min read . 11 May 2025

A criticism of the Academy Awards in recent years has been that they now champion films that are dull, with no wide audience appeal, or are just ordinary. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: Why movies that win Oscars are no longer enjoyable

5 min read . 04 May 2025

Google isn’t under any serious threat yet. It’s still ahead of OpenAI when it comes to search and handles 90% of the world’s queries. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: Who’d have thought Google could be replaced

5 min read . 27 Apr 2025

Bryan Johnson conducts various experiments on himself in his effort to live like a young man for a very long time.

Manu Joseph: There’s crushing news for people who want to live long

4 min read . 20 Apr 2025

China pulled Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from theatres.

Manu Joseph: India has a tariff on America’s huge cultural surplus

5 min read . 13 Apr 2025

If you wish to be a modern man, you must talk about your feelings; talk, talk, talk. (Netflix)

Manu Joseph: How to reform your son after you watched a TV show

5 min read . 06 Apr 2025

Freedom of expression is not an absolute right in the Indian Constitution.

Manu Joseph: Where our freedom of speech came from and where it went

5 min read . 30 Mar 2025

What was remarkable about Tendulkar playing the masters tournament was that he was among the very few Indians who were fit (PTI)

Manu Joseph: How language may have conspired to keep people unfit

5 min read . 23 Mar 2025

At the time when the Bofors controversy broke, Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress had over 414 seats in Parliament and controlled most states. (Express archive photo on May 1991)

Manu Joseph: We had more shame in the 1980s: Recall Bofors?

5 min read . 16 Mar 2025

What many business leaders don’t seem to understand is that their passion is not the same as what workers call ‘work.’ (Pixabay)

Manu Joseph: Narayana Murthy, Subrahmanyan miss something simple about work

5 min read . 09 Mar 2025

Every new technology appears to solve the problem, but it only becomes a new way of boring us.

Manu Joseph: How entertainment got boring in the age of streaming

5 min read . 02 Mar 2025

Of all the things that the West once meant to us, we are now only left with winding cobbled ways. (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: America and the bearable loneliness of losing the West

5 min read . 23 Feb 2025

The political direction that Trump and Musk took was probably influenced by those who vilified them. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: Our politics is usually shaped by the people we dislike

4 min read . 16 Feb 2025

This is a familiar story in every conflict zone. (AFP)

Manu Joseph: Trump’s Gaza plan may be more pragmatic than it looks

4 min read . 09 Feb 2025