The Acorn

Nuclear weapons in Indian strategic culture This is the full unedited version of my essay that appeared in the 35th anniversary special issue of India Today. Despite living next to each other for most of history, despite having fundamentally different ways of looking at international relations, the number of cases of direct military conflict between ...

Amend the anti-defection law and bring political parties under regulatory oversight Here’s Sunday’s television programme where I argued that the anti-defection law has destroyed the incentives for MPs to debate on substantive issues, leading to parliamentary dysfunction. See this article in Pragati by PRS Legislative Research’s M R Madhavan for an analysis of the anti-defection ...