Essays
- What Would Happen If China Made First Contact With Extraterrestrials?, The Diplomat, March 11, 2020.
- Dalliance No More: How India-US Defence Trade Relationship Matures over Years, News18, February 21, 2020. (Methodology note for the article.)
- Soldiers, Bureaucrats, and Statesmen: India’s Civil-Military Balance [$], The Diplomat Magazine, January 2020.
- India’s Unrealized Maritime Dreams [pdf], The Diplomat Magazine, July 2019.
- Death by a thousand cuts, Firstpost (Print), March 23-29, 2019. Also available online here. (Methodology note for the article.)
- How India’s defense policy complicates US-India military cooperation, War Room, February 26, 2019.
- The New Great Game: China and the intense maritime contest in Indo-Pacific region, Swarajya, April 2018. Also available online here.
- In search of China’s grand strategy, ORF Expert Speak | Raisina Debates, April 19, 2017. Reprinted in Harsh V. Pant (ed.) “China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications” (Observer Research Foundation/HarperCollins, 2019), 13-17 [book].
- India is not changing its policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, War on the Rocks, March 29, 2017.
- Getting India’s world right, Swarajya, March 2017. Also available online here.
- Thomas Schelling and the Golden Age of American strategy, ORF Expert Speak| Atlantic Files, December 19, 2016.
- The other legacy of Robert McNamara, War on the Rocks, June 10, 2016.
- The evolution of global risks: The first decade of World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports, Global Policy, June 25, 2015.
- Resizing Osama bin Laden, Open, Web Exclusive: April 30, 2012. Print: May 14, 2012.
Q&A brief
Modi’s Victory in the Indian Elections: What This Means for Asia and Beyond, Interview for the U.S. Senate India Caucus, National Bureau of Asian Research, May 23, 2019.
Commentary
- An intransigent China is a clear and present threat to India’s territorial integrity, Moneycontrol, June 26, 2020.
- Is Modi Delaying Military Response For India to Gain Advantage?, Quint, June 20, 2020.
- Lessons from the India-China border clashes, The Interpreter, June 19, 2020.
- What are India’s military options against China?, Moneycontrol, June 18, 2020.
- The Trump card in the Sino-Indian rivalry?, The Interpreter, May 29, 2020.
- The remaking of war; Part 2: Machine-learning set to usher in a whole new era of intelligent warfare, Firstpost, March 16, 2020.
- Freeman Dyson and the Challenges of the First Nuclear Age, The Wire Science, March 7, 2020.
- The remaking of war; Part 1: Risk of 19th Century international politics being pursued using 21st Century military means looms large, Firstpost, March 6, 2020.
- Qassem Soleimani’s Assassination: Lessons for India?, The Diplomat, January 4, 2020.
- How India Will Cope With Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka, The Diplomat, November 27, 2019.
- BRICS 3.0 and India: making the world safe for bilaterals and trilaterals, Africa Portal, November 18, 2019.
- Rejecting RCEP: India’s Great Geoeconomic Misstep, The Diplomat, November 7, 2019.
- Govt’s shift in nuclear posture shows this is a new New Delhi, Hindustan Times, August 17, 2019.
- Modi-fying Kashmir: Unpacking India’s Historic Decision to Revoke Kashmir’s Autonomy, The Diplomat, August 6, 2019.
- China’s white paper on defence should worry India: As Beijing focuses on equipment, New Delhi’s approach remains manpower-heavy, Firstpost, July 26, 2019.
- Why New Delhi Will Be Left Unfazed By China’s New Defense White Paper, The Diplomat, July 25, 2019.
- Narendra Modi’s re-election as India’s Prime Minister: Implications for Africa, Africa Portal, June 27, 2019.
- Modi 2.0’s China Outreach: Interpreting the Early Signs, The Diplomat, June 26, 2019.
- The India-France Security Partnership in the Indo-Pacific: Next Steps, The Diplomat, June 4, 2019.
- India, Africa and peacekeeping: Beyond the responsibility to protect – Part II, Africa Portal, May 30, 3019.
- India, Africa and the future of peacekeeping – Part I, Africa Portal, May 28, 2019.
- Narendra Modi’s 2019 Landslide: Why It Happened and What Happens Next, The Diplomat, May 24, 2019.
- Narendra Modi’s Radar Gaffe Reveals Dangerous, Clouded National Security Judgement, The Diplomat, May 16, 2019.
- Machines No Threat to Mathematicians, Firstpost (Print), May 11-17, 2019.
- Why Did China Change Its Position Now on Listing JeM Chief Masood Azhar at the Security Council?, The Diplomat, May 2, 2019.
- Artificial Intelligence models may have a few issues, algorithms don’t, Hindustan Times, February 14, 2019.
- Reimagining India-Africa relations in a world in flux, Africa Portal, February 8, 2019.
- The foreign policy legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mint, August 20, 2018.
- India’s rocky road to the Indo-Pacific [with Harsh V. Pant], ORF commentary, August 2, 2018.
- For BRICS to Reshape World Order, Should Avoid Anti-West Politics, Quint, July 28, 2018.
- Whither India in the Indo-Pacific? [with Tuneer Mukherjee], Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), June 4, 2018.
- Why New Delhi welcomes a can-do Canberra [with Aakriti Bachhawat], Mint, March 26, 2018.
- The game of chicken in the Arabian Sea [with Abhijit Singh], Mint, February 22, 2018.
- From Cold War to Hot Peace, 2018 Raisina Dialogue Report, January 2018.
- Alignment, Arrangement Or Alliance? Debating the Future of the Indo-Pacific, 2018 Raisina Dialogue Report, January 2018.
- Trump’s new national security strategy: The good, the bad and the complicated for New Delhi, Times of India, December 21, 2017.
- ‘2020: World of War’ creates scenarios to depict a world on the edge, ThePrint, November 25, 2017.
- What China does when it disagrees with you, Mint, November 23, 2017.
- How India Thinks About The World Through Ideas And Reality, Swarajya, September 23, 2017.
- India’s clever use of the Brics card in Dokalam, Mint, August 31, 2017.
- Beyond Doklam: India needs to overhaul its trade-friendly grand strategy on China, ThePrint, August 22, 2017.
- Deadlock over Doklam: The Sino-Indian standoff in Bhutan, IAPS Dialogue, July 8, 2017.
- Why Doklam and Bhutan matter, Hindustan Times, July 4, 2017.
- The rise of null politics, Asian Age, March 15, 2017.
- The Hamlet question returns: Is Donald Trump merely playing crazy or. . .?, Swarajya, February 24, 2017.
- India and China: Does the Elephant read the Dragon right?, Swarajya, February 3, 2017.
- Trump and the techie, ABPLive, February 1, 2017.
- Donald Trump is no liberal — but not a realist either, Swarajya, January 31, 2017.
- Predicting what American foreign policy will look like under the Mattis-Trump combine, Firstpost, January 13, 2017
- Pakistan tests Babur III missile: How should India interpret this latest move?, Firstpost, January 10, 2017.
- Turkey is the canary in the coal mine, forecasting whether the West-led liberal order has a future, Times of India, December 22, 2016.
- US President-elect Donald Trump’s generals Part 3: John Kelly and the narco-terror nexus, Firstpost, December 21, 2016.
- Russian Ambassador to Turkey assassinated: What does this mean for regional stability?, Firstpost, December 20, 2016.
- US President-elect Donald Trump’s generals Part 2: Michael Flynn’s war on Islamism, Firstpost, December 19, 2016.
- US President-elect Donald Trump’s generals Part 1: Why 9/11 will shape what follows 11/9, Firstpost, November 30, 2016.
- Motormouth Manohar Parrikar almost nukes India’s NSG bid with needless boast, Firstpost, November 11, 2016.
- US elects Donald Trump as President: How he handles China, Russia will be interesting, Firstpost, November 9, 2016.
- At the middle kingdom’s core: Xi Jinping anointed “core” Chinese leader but his strategy reveals a contradiction, Times of India, November 1, 2016.
- Month after surgical strikes: Appraisal of India’s new strategy of dealing with Pakistan, Firstpost, October 28, 2016
- MNS’ aggressive stand can wreck PM Narendra Modi’s new Pakistan policy, Firstpost, October 25, 2016.
- Brics Summit: India must bide time to deal with China as relationship with Pakistan hit a new low, Firstpost, October 14, 2016.
- The alphabet soup in Goa [with Samir Saran], Hindu, October 13, 2016.
- Surgical strikes along LoC puts South Asia on cusp of new India-Pakistan dynamic, Firstpost, September 30, 2016.
- Indian Army attack across LoC using surgical strikes meant to probe Pakistan’s threshold for escalation, Firstpost, September 29, 2016.
- Brics Summit in Goa: Ahead of 8th conference, the bloc must focus on institution-building [with Samir Saran], Firstpost, September 19, 2016.
- Situating the Uri terror attack within Pakistan’s strategy of provocation and escalation, Firstpost, September 19, 2016.
- BRICS, globalisms, and the return of the state [with Samir Saran], ORF Expert Speak| Raisina Debates, August 31, 2016. (Shorter version in the Economic Times, August 31, 2016.)
- Narendra Modi’s Independence Day take on Balochistan is a foreign policy milestone, Firstpost, August 16, 2016.
- On Independence Day, Narendra Modi pokes Pakistan with Baloch, Gilgit, PoK: Big shift, Firstpost, August 15, 2016.
- Al-Qaeda 2.o? Meet Abu Mus’ab al-Suri and his grand strategy for the Islamic State, Firstpost, August 8, 2016.
- Geopolitics and geoeconomics – India’s tightrope, The Interpreter, July 28, 2016.
- Getting real about the Middle Kingdom, ORF Expert Speak|Raisina Debates, July 21, 2016.
- India would win with Trump, National Interest, May 26, 2016.
- Policy short-sightedness exacerbates India’s water crisis [with Samir Saran], The Interpreter, May 6, 2016.
- Banning surge pricing is bad economics [with Prashant Kumar], Business Standard, April 22, 2016.
- Building new alliances with BRICS [with Samir Saran], The Hindu, March 25, 2016.
- The JNU fracas is actually a crisis for the Right, Scroll, February 21, 2016.
- Engage the Dragon on Balochistan [with Samir Saran], Times of India, February 4, 2016.
- G20 Turkey Summit: Towards resilience, recovery and sustainability, ORF Commentary, November 10, 2015.
- Two Myths Around Grexit, JustJobs Network Commentary, July 2, 2015.
- Setting the record straight on Ex-Im Bank and jobs, JustJobs Network Commentary, June 17, 2015.
- Has Chinese growth been jobless?, JustJobs Network Commentary, June 15, 2015.
- Internationalizing India’s MSME sector, JustJobs Network Commentary, June 1, 2015.
- “Make in India” needs a “Served by India” component, JustJobs Network Commentary, May 22, 2015.
- War and peace in a nonstate world, Global Policy, December 10, 2013.
- Is innovation predictable?, Wired, November 25, 2013.
- Singularly Complex. The Catch with Hybrid Finance, Big Think, April 12, 2012 [guest post in Parag and Ayesha Khanna’s blog].
- Models and markets, Open, Web Exclusive: May 30, 2009. Print: June 05, 2009.