Geopolitics: Creative conservatism should guide India's foreign policy in an era of US-China rivalry

New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- After this year's shocking turn in India-US relations, many argued that India must tilt towards China to counterbalance America. It is true that we have ended up becoming geopoli... Read More

Indian courts need expert guidance as they increasingly rule on complex economic matters

New Delhi, Nov. 16 -- A few months ago, the Karnataka government amended the state's cinema regulation rules to cap ticket prices at Rs.200. The multiplex industry association challenged this in the h... Read More

Let's use 'special governance zones' as test spaces to work out how we can improve urban India

New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- In a recent online conversation on the dismal state of urban infrastructure, a senior political leader all but admitted that government officials are incapable of delivering publi... Read More

Long view: Is the West's alienation from its own culture going to be its undoing?

New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- My previous column was a reflection on how America, like the triumphant Yadus after the Kurukshetra war, might be defeating itself from within. Today, I want to discuss a grand d... Read More

From Kurukshetra to America: How the Mahabharata warns of superpowers destroying themselves

New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- Most people believe that the Mahabharata concludes with the defeat of the Kauravas in the Kurukshetra war and the coronation of Yudhishtira as the righteous Pandava ruler of Indra... Read More

Memes to mayhem: Revolutions like Nepal's don't just happen because conditions are ripe

New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- A revolution is almost always an emergent phenomenon. The ingredients for one might exist for a long time, but they do not always come together in a politically explosive form. ... Read More