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Making the most of AI diffusion.
Strategists and policymakers must quickly direct their attention to how the India adopts AI as must as how India builds it. | 10th Feb 2025
India must set up a Cabinet Committee on Science & Technology
With the right structures in place, India could better harness its resources, expertise, and human capital to emerge as a major power | 27th Jan 2025
TikTok is an information weapon in Beijing’s hands
TikTok for offence and the Great Firewall for defence: recognising China's information warfare strategy. | 26th Jan 2025
How the IAF can get a lot more fighter aircraft
Domestic combat aircraft production is in doldrums because of a lack of competition. | 13th Jan 2025
Sustaining economic growth requires ingredients from outside the economists’ cupboard
India must invest in social capital, productivity growth and original thinking to become a prosperous nation. | 30th Dec 2024
2024 - The Year in Fiction
A rated list of 76 books I read and a further 34 that I opened. | 23rd Dec 2024
How India could develop the social capital it needs
Public policy, community actions and parental behaviour should focus on weakening caste consciousness | 16th Dec 2024
Only social movements can save the environment in India
Neither judicial diktats nor government action can lift the smog unless Indian society builds the necessary social capital | 2nd Dec 2024
Trump’s moves to contain China will be contained by his other moves
China will look a lot more attractive, not least because America's shine is dimming fast. | 18th Nov 2024
Cautious optimism to start the post-Galwan phase
Diplomacy and military preparedness should go hand-in-hand in dealing with a disdainful China | 4th Nov 2024
India must sharply boost its military strength
There could be a case for an immediate surge in defence expenditure | 21st Oct 2024
Monopolisation of space is bad for the world
Global governance must catch up with the pace of technological development in spacefaring and satellite communications | 7th Oct 2024
Bad traffic is anti-national
For how can a society were people are angry with each other be a nation? | 23rd Sep 2024
Why has it become necessary to stage public protests for justice?
Indian society needs a new commitment towards strengthening law enforcement | 9th Sep 2024
Why independent India has not produced great political thinkers
We do not have political thinkers because India does not encourage free thinking | 26th Aug 2024
Why should public money be spent on sports?
Where we uncover one basic reason against and a three big reasons in favour of government spending on sports | 12th Aug 2024
Upholding the Constitution for the wrong reasons is dangerous for the Indian Republic
The Constitution is neither about quotas nor is it a holy book. It would be dangerous to treat it as one. | 29th Jul 2024
How to choose a National Security Advisor
Some basic principles in the design of the national security advisor's office and eco-system | 14th Jul 2024
Fixing entrance exams won’t suffice - higher education needs radical reform
Upgrade universities across the states, massively expand the number of seats and reduce the salience of entrance exams | 1st Jul 2024
India needs 20 million jobs per year
The 2024 election has brought the case for mass employment to the surface of the political discourse | 17th Jun 2024
Carbon emissions of war put humanity’s right to exist at risk
In the face of the climate crisis, war is no longer only a moral crime against humanity. It is a material one against the survival of the species. | 20th May 2024
The constituents of America’s strength are under severe strain
The United States stands to lose global influence if it continues on the current trajectory | 6th May 2024
There are costs and risks to an amazing missile defence shield
Technology creates time and space for politics; it does not substitute it. | 19th Apr 2024
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