Clear, evidence-led explanations of the issues shaping India and the world.
Not Every Outrage Needs an Instant Verdict Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. This ancient-sounding wisdom has become almost impossible in a time when every public…
The Internet Gave Humanity Freedom, and Then Sold Its Attention The internet arrived as a promise of liberation. It told humanity that knowledge would be free, speech would be de…
Technology Can Replace Tasks, Not Human Judgment Every generation has its favourite machine. The steam engine promised strength. The railway promised speed. The computer promised…
A Nation That Does Not Invest in Science Outsources Its Security A country can import weapons, buy software, license technology, assemble devices and celebrate foreign investment…
The New Wars Are Won Without Firing a Shot The most powerful wars of the twenty-first century may not begin with a formal declaration, a marching army or a missile crossing the s…
GDP Measures Growth, Not Whether People Are Living Better Lives GDP is a brilliant instrument, but a poor mirror. It can measure the size of the economic machine, but not the tex…
Algorithms Are Now Telling Us Who We Are There was a time when self-discovery meant silence. A person read, travelled, failed, loved, lost, argued, prayed, worked, wandered, and…
The New World Order Will Be Written in Chips, Cables and Code For most of modern history, power was drawn on maps with borders, armies, ports, oilfields, sea lanes and alliances.…
AI Will Not Kill All Jobs. It Will Kill the Comfort of Average Skills The panic around artificial intelligence is both justified and misplaced. It is justified because AI will di…
India's Climate Future Will Depend on Technologies We Scale Before Crisis Hits Climate change will not arrive in India as a single dramatic event. It will arrive as a bad monsoon…
Forests Are Not Anti-Development; They Are Economic Infrastructure There is a lazy argument India must now outgrow: that forests are beautiful, but development is practical. It s…
India's Fiscal Federalism Is Becoming the New Battleground of Politics Indian politics is often described through elections, caste equations, party alliances, religious symbolism…
