This is Nitin Pai's cyberspace.

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 age ☼ hyperdiversity ☼ liberal democracy ☼ economics ☼ Covid-19 ☼ philosophy and everything else

▸ In these columns: ☼ Mint ☼ Debates with my Daughters ☼ Sakal ☼ The Print ☼ The Hindu ☼ Pragati ☼ Pax Indica

▸ Other stuff ☼ Raw Notes ☼ Now

Three thoughts on Independence Day
| 14th Aug 2017

The coming conflict with China in the Indian Ocean
| 11th Aug 2017

Unreciprocated withdrawal?
| 4th Aug 2017

India and the Indo-Pacific Balance of Power
| 1st Aug 2017

India’s agriculture policy has no goals
In the absence of a roadmap, it is hard to fault governments that announce subsidies, entitlements and loan waivers that can ameliorate a current crisis. They are popular because they appeal to conventional sentiment. | 14th Jul 2017

Dealing with China
| 7th Jul 2017

The ocean is the solution to the problem in the mountains
| 1st Jul 2017

Getting the Union out of the Urban
| 21st Jun 2017

A world shaped on an Indian Consensus?
| 19th Jun 2017

Words had to change their ordinary meaning
| 19th Jun 2017

Managing the loan waiver wave
| 12th Jun 2017

What New Delhi must do after having boycotted the Belt and Road Forum
| 2nd Jun 2017

Saving the Nation From Nationalists
The nationalism we are overdosing ourselves with is not the inclusive one that created India, but the divisive one that created Pakistan. Too much of it will destroy India. | 30th May 2017

Our Task is to Build the Foundations
For decades, the population has been growing at a pace much faster than the spread of liberal values. So it is much harder to advocate liberty today than it was a decade ago. But if the advocacy of liberty is not scaled up, this imperfectly liberal republic will be lost to an illiberal one. | 14th Apr 2017

Excuse me, have you changed your doctrine?
| 7th Apr 2017

Don’t let the doctrine worry you
| 22nd Mar 2017

For reason to prevail
| 19th Mar 2017

The “right to internet” scam
| 18th Mar 2017

The nationalisation of toilets
| 16th Mar 2017

A republic - if we can keep it
On 26th January 1950, the Enlightenment—a historical process of intellectual development that evolved in Western Europe and the United States over centuries—was injected into the veins of Indian society in the form of a written statute. | 13th Mar 2017

China set to gain a decisive military advantage
| 11th Mar 2017

Chinese Chop Hooey
| 4th Mar 2017

Why the economy might have grown 7% last quarter
| 2nd Mar 2017

← Newer posts page 13 of 177 Older posts →