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The Acorn
Estd 2003
Recent posts:

The Asian Balance: Myanmar’s Narasimha Rao moment?
| 16th Oct 2011

Bruce Riedel says appeasement doesn’t work
| 15th Oct 2011

Baburam Bhattarai’s tilted bridge
| 20th Sep 2011

Three grand narratives of Pakistan
| 19th Sep 2011

The Asian Balance: Assessing India’s East Asian engagement
| 19th Sep 2011

Middle India’s political game-changer
| 5th Sep 2011

The Great Middle Indian Churning of 2011
| 4th Sep 2011

On NDTV: The consequences of Hazaremania
| 4th Sep 2011

Let’s Organise Indians for a Strong Republic
| 26th Aug 2011

Sunday Levity: Handmade writing instruments
| 22nd Aug 2011

A case in point
Mint's Priya Ramani asked me to write this article on India's surviving handmade fountain pen industry | 19th Aug 2011

Handling Hazare
| 16th Aug 2011

Three thoughts on Independence Day
| 14th Aug 2011

FAQ: Why Anna Hazare is wrong and Lok Pal a bad idea
| 14th Aug 2011

On the Thiruvananthapuram treasure
| 3rd Aug 2011

K Subrahmanyam on CDS vs CJCS
| 26th Jul 2011

China’s moment of vulnerability
| 26th Jul 2011

Fighting terrorism, starting with the easy stuff
| 17th Jul 2011

Terrorist attacks on Mumbai - A preliminary assessment
| 14th Jul 2011

The Asian Balance: US-Iran rapprochement
| 12th Jul 2011

The screws, they tighten on Pakistan’s military establishment
| 10th Jul 2011

East Asia, yes. Iran, err.
| 10th Jul 2011

David Petraeus is in da house
| 7th Jul 2011



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