Vinu Jaglan — philosophy, psychology, politics, society and education
Long-Form Arguments

Essays that
needed footnotes

Some questions cannot be settled in eighteen minutes of video. These are the ones that needed sources, structure and the freedom to be wrong in public at length.

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Why essays and not just videos

A video has to keep moving. You cannot stop mid-argument to establish a premise, and you certainly cannot footnote a claim while somebody is watching on a phone.

Essays can do both. They can take the long route, cite the source, acknowledge the strongest objection properly instead of gesturing at it, and leave a permanent record you can check rather than a clip somebody edits out of context.

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Each one has its own page in the blog.

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Some run as series

Arguments too large for a single piece.

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Between the books, the shayari lives on @poet.vinu

Hindi and Urdu couplets, posted as they are written. Twenty of them are on the poetry page.

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