This is Nitin Pai's cyberspace.

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

Focus on maximising the vaccination rate
Let’s say Melon Rusk, one of the world’s richest billionaires, approaches the Indian government and makes an offer to deliver 2 billion doses of a covid vaccine within 2 months for ₹2 trillion. Should the government take the offer? | 24th May 2021

The urgent need for administrative re-engineering
Unless we reform how India is governed, the structures, processes and culture of government, we will continue to be disappointed by what the system actually delivers. | 10th May 2021

Goodbye and good riddance to board examinations
To the extent that board exams have any useful role in education itself, there are cheaper and less harmful alternatives that can replace exams. | 25th Apr 2021

Vaccination certificates need a framework to govern their use
India has done well so far to take the future-ready middle path of providing vaccination certificates without taking a position on their use. It is now time to put in place a framework to govern their use. | 11th Apr 2021

Why my estimates for the second wave of Covid-19 were wrong
While I had qualified my assessment with a few caveats, I was wrong to expect that the second wave will be “small” in several cities and districts. I did not anticipate that people would so quickly relax their guard, engage in large gatherings and visit crowded places. | 7th Apr 2021

Direct vaccination to spike the surge
Instead of pursuing a progressive nationwide expansion of vaccination prioritized by age-groups, the Narendra Modi government should open up vaccination to all adults in cities and districts where there is a surge in new covid cases. | 29th Mar 2021

Fukushima’s lesson is the need for effective nuclear regulation
If India’s nuclear industry is government-run for the foreseeable future, then it is all the more important to restructure its governance. | 14th Mar 2021

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