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Pressing the Constitutional Reset button in the Maldives
| 20th Feb 2018

When should India employ hard power?
| 9th Feb 2018

Taxing women less can create more jobs
| 19th Jan 2018

Sunday Levity: Why Modiji must not be limited
| 24th Dec 2017

Why India must review its Myanmar policy
| 17th Nov 2017

Rohingya crisis must not destabilise Bangladesh
| 6th Oct 2017

The Rohingya refugee crisis
Bangladesh has set an example with its response to the Rohingya crisis. India must stand firm in support. | 25th Sep 2017

The Agricultural Crisis is a Jobs Crisis
Ambedkar was right. The only way to save our farmers is to allow jobs for them to be created elsewhere. | 12th Sep 2017

The demand for Japanese power
| 8th Sep 2017

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

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