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A strategy for India in a world adrift
An analysis of India’s strategic path amidst tectonic external and domestic shifts by an independent group of leading policymakers, analysts and thinkers | 28th Sep 2021
India must invest in more sophisticated cyber weapons
Without offensive cyber capabilities it is impossible to defend the nation's information sphere. | 27th Sep 2021
Early thoughts on AUKUS and India
AUKUS is a military pact within a military pact. Non-inclusion has opportunity costs for India; but also offers other opportunities for partnership. | 16th Sep 2021
Organic farming should not be an article of faith
Policies that respect the farmer's economic freedom are the best route to sustainable agriculture | 13th Sep 2021
Exploiting the projects that China builds
Instead of handwringing on Beijing's growing geopolitical footprint, New Delhi should exploit both the asset and liability side of such projects. | 1st Sep 2021
Fighting the Strong Force
The Chinese Communist Party wants to separate kids from their smartphones. Even the Taliban might have surrendered on this front. | 31st Aug 2021
Extracting value from underutilised public assets is good public policy
The National Monetization Pipeline (NMP) is a desirable shift in thinking especially if state and municipal governments can use the model to extract revenues from their unutilised assets | 30th Aug 2021
Where the United States failed
A lot of people are offering commentaries on why and how the United States failed in Afghanistan. Yet the more important question that few are asking is "Where the United States failed." | 25th Aug 2021
On diplomatically engaging the Taliban
The Taliban will chafe at being treated as puppets by their external backers and reach out India. But New Delhi can afford to wait. | 20th Aug 2021
Make China accountable for the Taliban’s actions
It is in India's interests to prefer a Pax Sinica over Afghanistan. Beijing has skilfully avoided commitment -- and been let off the hook -- for too long. Its culpability has been ignored: By supporting the Taliban it has thrown the Afghan people to the wolves. | 16th Aug 2021
Beyond theatre commands and towards networked battle units
The meaning of networked warfare has changed from equipping armed forces with data networks to reorganizing the forces themselves into networked units. Instead of forever playing catch-up, India has a unique opportunity to leapfrog into building not only integrated, but networked forces. | 16th Aug 2021
Westland Publications to publish Nitin Pai’s forthcoming book
Through playful anecdotes and stories-within-stories, the book teases out the intricacies of the dharma of citizenship, quite distinct from the rajadharma of the Arthashastra or the swadharma of the Dharmashastras. | 10th Aug 2021
What Pegasus tells us about India’s national security and cyber power
India urgently needs a serious, realist, non-partisan policy debate on the development and governance of national cyber capabilities. | 2nd Aug 2021
Why China is attacking its consumer internet companies
Because size, reach and control of consumer data gives them narrative power. Xi is pre-empting threats to the Communist Party's monopoly on political power. | 27th Jul 2021
India can protect its interests even if Afghanistan falls to the Taliban again
New Delhi's strategy must shift to exploiting the contradictions among the foreign powers influencing Afghan politics. | 19th Jul 2021
Liberal democracies have a fundamental advantage in offensive cyber capability
Authoritarian states suffer a high opportunity cost of censorship, coercion and propaganda tying up their resources in ideological defence. | 5th Jul 2021
Swadeshi in a free society
In the Indian Public Policy Review, I present the very interesting economic history of Swadeshi and self-reliance and uncover some very unexpected facts. This post is an excerpt from the concluding part of the paper. | 2nd Jul 2021
The Bangalore Model of Civic Engagement
I conceptualise the “Bangalore Model of Civic Engagement" that many technocrats, activists, philanthropists and civic leaders have helped shape; and explain why it is different, what makes it possible, and where it is falling short. | 28th Jun 2021
Reimagining social security for the 21st century
The most effective way will be for the government to enable a multi-contributor model that brings whole of society into supporting the needy. | 23rd Jun 2021
The world should fight the pandemic as one
In early 2020, there was a chance to use the pandemic crisis as an opportunity to shape global cooperation that could then form the basis for a new world order. | 21st Jun 2021
Moving Indians out of agriculture
It has almost been 150 years since we recognised that to achieve sustained economic growth Indians must shift from agriculture to industry. | 19th Jun 2021
Human capital and national power
The biggest change to India's national power in the next decade will come from changes in human capital | 18th Jun 2021
The banal geopolitical fallout of the laboratory leak hypothesis
Perhaps Xi Jinping is right, and like it or not, China will be even more indispensable to the post-covid world. | 6th Jun 2021
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