#354 When Faced Against a Cannon...
Protests and Education
EconomicsCulture
Anticipating the Unintended.
Public policy frameworks, geopolitics, and governance from an Indian perspective.
Recent essays
23 of 23#353 A Kafkaesque Nightmare
SIR Troubles, ASML's Quarterly Earnings, Water for Data Centres, and the American Confusion over Chinese Open-source Models
#352 The Art of the Impossible
H20 → E20 and The Wrong Lesson from a Drowning City
#351 How to Get to 'Sovereign AI'?
Two perspectives on the AI Sovereignty Question
#350 Of Delays and Denials
China's Overlooked Outbound Investment Restrictions and RBI's Defence of the Rupee
#349 Slowly; then Suddenly
Aaya Ram Aaya Ram and India-US Dynamics
#348 Pause and Think
India's Declining Fertility Rate - an Opportunity; and Does India Have Any Leverage Against the US and China?
#347 Clawing Back
Economic Rearguard Action, Ten Years of Bihar's Prohibition, and Making Sense of the Many Critical Mineral Frameworks
#346 Rebuilding
Cockroach Problems, India's Chip Future, and a New Tool for Policy Reasoning
#345 Anecdata*
Observations from Silicon Valley and Sri Lanka
#344 Juggernauts
Juggernauts: the political one and the geopolitical one.
#343 Overhang
India's Economic Resilience and One Year of Operation Sindoor
#342 Quick-fire
Decoding Hungarian Election Results, India's Dog in the US-China Fight on AI chips, and Five Crucial Developments in Tech Geopolitics
#341 Misaligned Expectations
What to Expect from the Islamabad Talks, Pakistan's Role in the Talks, and Geography Comes Back to Bite
#340 Deterrents; Real and Mythical
Chokepoint - The Word of the Year, The Flavours of Nationalism, and A Housing PolicyWTF
#339 Divergence and Assimilation
D.R. Nagaraj's Views on the Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate, India's Response to China's Supply Chain Warfare, and a Call for Negative Results of Supply Chain Weaponisation
#338 Matsyanyaaya
West Asia War Take #3, Virtue Signalling in International Relations, and new Data Confirms Slow Progress of Semiconductor Projects
#337 Ramps, Tipping Points, and U-turns
The West Asia War, a welcome TACO on chip controls, India's Energy Insecurity, and the Press Note 3 Amendment
#336 Of Wars and Races
Another War in West Asia, and the Social Foundations of AI Diffusion
#335 Rope Tricks
A Tariff and Technology Geopolitics Round-up
#334 Wins, Big and Small
The AI Impact Summit, Tariff Rollback, and Robin Hood Tax Goes to America
#333 The AI Debate
Two perspectives on AI and India, and Policy Reasons for the Anaemic Box Office in India
#332 The Budget Edition
Trade Deal, the Rupee Defence, Market Signals, Semiconductors, and Defence