This is Nitin Pai's cyberspace.

What I’m up to now: pursuits, talks, engagements.
Contact: @acorn.

I’m interested in coffee, philosophy, sharp objects, public policy, tech and stationery.

You are in the structured section of my domain where I have my blog posts, newspaper columns, updates on my teaching and research, and other things you had always been warned about.

▸ Check out my book: The Nitopadesha: Moral Tales for Good Citizens.⭐

▸ I have recently been writing about: ☼ information agehyperdiversityliberal democracyeconomicsCovid-19philosophy and everything else

▸ In these columns: ☼ MintDebates with my DaughtersThe PrintThe HinduPragatiPax IndicaSakal

The Acorn
Estd 2003
Recent posts:

Fasting & Political Blackmail (Regulation) Bill, 2011
| 1st Jul 2011

Does Europe matter?
| 27th Jun 2011

The calculations and risks of the US drawdown
| 22nd Jun 2011

Hitchens v Fair
| 22nd Jun 2011

Why we need a policy on overseas military deployments
| 19th Jun 2011

Burney points
| 18th Jun 2011

Why the IT rules are bad. And how they can be reversed.
| 16th Jun 2011

Weekday Squib: Acorns on the cuffs
| 16th Jun 2011

Of Cults and Parties
| 16th Jun 2011

Pax Indica: The sun doesn’t set on the Indian Republic
| 14th Jun 2011

The Asian Balance: General Liu can shut his eyelids now
| 12th Jun 2011

Set up a maritime security task force
The Indian government was in a bind because it could neither pay out ransoms itself nor condone the payment of ransom by others. | 11th Jun 2011

The sun doesn’t set on the Indian Republic
After Extra-territorial States were formed and treated on par with territorial States in every way. | 11th Jun 2011

Cut Pakistan Loose
Bailing it out will only impede its transformation into a normal state | 9th Jun 2011

My op-ed in WSJ Asia - Cut Pakistan Loose
| 8th Jun 2011

The mantra for the alternative
| 7th Jun 2011

“I know where you are coming from”
| 23rd May 2011

The double trouble of dealing with Pakistan
We still need to think about how we can contain the military-jihadi complex without destroying the putative Pakistani state. But treating them as two different things will inject a clarity in the way we approach the problem. | 17th May 2011

What’s wrong with asking women to learn martial arts
| 17th May 2011

The beans that will spill in Chicago
| 17th May 2011

Reconstructing Afghanistan’s natural balance
| 17th May 2011

Pax Indica: Double trouble
| 17th May 2011

The Asian Balance: The signal from Samoa
| 15th May 2011



← Newer posts page 26 of 178 Older posts →

© Copyright 2003-2024. Nitin Pai. All Rights Reserved.