Published : Jul 29, 2026 18:17 IST - 8 MINS READYesterday I had a dream,Yes, I had a dream:An army of ants came all as oneAnd killed an elephant! — K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poetDear reader,Satchidanandan’s ants have been walking around in my head since July 20. People who don’t respect their elders, the past, who live only in the present, the happiness generation. But precarity also stripped the state of its favourite lever, and the state does not appear to have noticed until the barricades were already down. An army of ants does not need to know the elephant’s entire biography to bring it down.