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The Acorn
Estd 2003
Recent posts:
Now that Agnipath is here, it must be made to work
Agnipath may have been prompted by fiscal concerns but it should serve as a trigger to carry out long due reforms in the structure and management of the armed forces | 19th Jun 2022
How fiscal federalism has kept the Indian republic united
Indian states must up their game to take advantage of the new era of fiscal federalism | 6th Jun 2022
Rebalance the Rajya Sabha in tandem with Lok Sabha delimitation
The anxieties over delimitation can take a dark turn unless the federal structure is strengthened in parallel | 23rd May 2022
Linguistic pluralism has led India to do better than all its neighbours
Forcing languages on people has failed every one of India's neighbours | 9th May 2022
Seven Tenets of Indian Nationalism
My attempt to distill the essence of Indian Nationalism from its earliest times to the present date. | 29th Apr 2022
The right to ownership of smartphones and personal computing devices must be protected
Hardware subscriptions are a bad idea for human society. The business model must be challenged and subject to public and parliamentary debate. | 25th Apr 2022
We need global leadership on rejecting the first use of nuclear weapons
Russia’s nuclear threats calls upon us to review how we reduce the risk of destroying ourselves | 17th Apr 2022
India’s geoeconomic interests are with the West and the rest
India must deepen its engagement with its important trading partners and avoid aligning with China and Russia | 11th Apr 2022
The Ukraine war and the global surge in human stupidity
Societies, governments, corporations and individuals are harming their own interests in their response to the war | 28th Mar 2022
The end of globalisation, 1989-2022
Western sanctions on Russia have killed globalisation | 27th Mar 2022
No ideology, just anti-West
The Chinese-Russian model might be more attractive to the world's regimes because they have no ideological baggage. | 27th Mar 2022
Arms control for economic WMDs
The train has left the station, but Raghuram Rajan's suggestions can help mitigate the damage to the global economy. | 27th Mar 2022
Misgivings about hardware subscriptions
Hardware-as-a-service can disconnect individuals from means of economic production and concentrate market power into the hands of tech giants. | 27th Mar 2022
Russia buries 20th century nuclear behavioural norms
Whatever the result of the Ukraine war, Russia has upturned the fifty-year-old norm of nuclear deterrence. | 26th Mar 2022
The closing of McDonald’s in Moscow is bad news for the global economy.
By taking sides in the Ukraine war, Western multinationals have undermined the logic of globalisation | 14th Mar 2022
Who is responsible for the Ukraine war, and who is its winner?
Regardless of the military outcome, alas, no one wins this war. Everyone loses. The only difference might be who loses more and relative to whom. | 13th Mar 2022
Putin’s invasion of China marks the biggest failure of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy
The Ukraine war is not merely an embarrassment for Xi ahead of China’s Communist Party session later this year. It is a damning indictment of his foreign policy. | 25th Feb 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is marked by a big Chinese failure
How Vladimir Putin jumped the gun and jeopardised Xi Jinping's global ambitions | 24th Feb 2022
How Russia and NATO are fighting an information war over Ukraine
Major cyber offensives may be unlikely but information operations are in full swing | 14th Feb 2022
How can India become a global technological power?
It is by being an indispensible part of the eco-system that will ensure India has both access to technology and, to some extent, the ability to control access to technology. | 13th Feb 2022
State administrative services are crucial to federalism
More than transfers of elite civil servants, it the systemic inability of India’s states to recruit adequate numbers of public officials that is the bigger scandal | 31st Jan 2022
Major powers are extending their spheres of influence
India must project both its power and its values to shape the new world order. | 23rd Jan 2022
The co-evolution of genes and culture is revolutionizing policy
Remembering Edward O. Wilson -- and how insights from evolutionary biology can explain how we got here and what we must do to be better | 17th Jan 2022
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