Why I started YUGANTAR
An Indian Kid Who Grew Up Everywhere, in a World Between Eras
There is a Sanskrit word I recently came across: Yugantar
Yug-antar. The turning point between two Yugas, two eras.
It describes exactly where we are. The post-Cold War world, the unipolar American moment, the era of cheap energy and hyper-globalization are all but over. However, the new multipolar, green, intelligent world hasn’t fully arrived yet.
We are living in the in-between. The Yugantar. What an interesting and overwhelming time to be living in!
I grew up living in many different countries. Different schools, different languages at the supermarket, different versions of history in textbooks. When you grow up like that, you learn one thing very early: there is no single centre of the world.
What looks like a crisis in London looks like an opportunity in New Delhi. What looks like a new technology in San Francisco looks like a new colonialism in Nairobi. The world looks different depending on where you stand.
For a long time, I thought this made my worldview complicated. Then I did my Master’s in International Studies, which taught me to make sense of the world through reading and writing.
That is why I started this publication. To make sense of the world in transition and explore complex and dynamic changes through writing and perhaps maybe go on to understand the world a bit better…
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*What you will find here*
YUGANTAR will not be about breaking news. There is enough of that. It will be about making sense of the transition we are in.
Most analysis on international affairs comes from Washington or London. It is smart, but it is one lens. I want to offer something different: a view that is rooted in Indian civilization — one that has seen many Yugas rise and fall — but shaped by a life lived across borders.
Yugantar will be a space for analysis and opinion on power, planet and people at a moment when the old world order is giving way to something not yet fully formed. Written from an Indian perspective, shaped by a global one.
For starters, I hope to engage on the following three core pillars:
Power
What happens when power shifts from West to East, North to South — analysed not from one capital, but from having lived across many.
Planet
Climate and energy are not abstract policy debates — they are lived realities that land differently depending on where you are. This pillar examines the uneven geography of the green transition.
People
Technology, AI and space are reshaping what it means to be human — and not everyone experiences that transformation equally. People asks who gains, who loses and who decides.
From sustainability to semiconductors, from climate summits to conflicts — if it marks a change of era, it belongs in Yugantar.
If you have also lived between cultures, between countries, between eras — you will feel at home here.
This is my first dispatch from the in-between.
Welcome to YUGANTAR…🙏
