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The Acorn
Estd 2003
Recent posts:
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
To address the water crisis, India must price water
Water conservation requires multi-dimensional action -- but only pricing will create strong incentives for it | 8th Apr 2024
India cannot afford Piketty’s prescriptions
India should not be distracted from pursuing a sustainable high-growth path | 7th Apr 2024
The West’s disregard for global norms is endangering the world
Why should the rest of the world trust the West on climate and other global issues? | 25th Mar 2024
Power flows from the pins of microchips
Taking a step back to understand why national security types are concerning themselves with semiconductors | 11th Mar 2024
Hyperdiversity hardens Papua New Guinea’s challenges
Unless hyperdiverse societies develop a sense of higher-level imagined communities, they will underprovide even the most basic public goods. | 26th Feb 2024
Science fiction must escape the dystopia it has trapped itself in
We create the future we imagine: so it is important to imagine the future we wish to create. | 12th Feb 2024
Narrative Dominance, Information Warfare and the Freedom to Think
This policy brief offers a framework to analyse information warfare and underlines the importance of cognitive security | 1st Feb 2024
Why public places in India deteriorate over time
The missing sense of community is the underlying cause of many public problems | 29th Jan 2024
A nation is forged around dinner parties
Communal dining is the easiest pathway towards breaking age-old identity barriers that prevent the buildup of social capital. | 15th Jan 2024
Social capital is the fuel that Indian entrepreneurs require
Credit flows remain constrained by boundaries of caste and community. Public policy must address this problem. | 18th Dec 2023
2023 - The Year in Fiction
A rated list of 36 books I read and a further 41 that I opened. | 12th Dec 2023
When I tried to kill Mark Twain
A short story | 5th Dec 2023
Environmental goals are difficult to achieve without social capital
Getting international agreement on climate issues is the easy part; the difficult bit is getting hyperdiverse societies to cooperate at the everyday level. | 4th Dec 2023
The United States will continue to try to contain China’s technological progress
The Xi-Biden meeting in San Francisco did not achieve much, but showed Beijing's vulnerabilities in the geopolitics of high technology. | 19th Nov 2023
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