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Unfulfilled potential: let's attract more foreign direct spending to help keep a steady external balance

New Delhi, June 14 -- Last month, I demonstrated how India's social capital deficiency shows up as a current account deficit through gold imports. Now I want to draw attention to another way we are lo... Read More


Minimize Digital India's risk exposure: the country must use its market as leverage in a new global order

New Delhi, May 31 -- Counting is always political. Who gets counted, what gets counted and how it is done are not just technical choices but acts of power. So, when the International Monetary Fund's i... Read More


Trust deficit: India must generate social capital for people to believe institutions are as good as gold

New Delhi, May 17 -- India's social capital deficit registers as a factor in its current account deficit through the demand for gold. Our appetite for gold is not an irrational cultural quirk. It is, ... Read More


Islamabad talks: Pakistan's role as peacemaker won't help it overcome its military-jihadi complex

New Delhi, May 3 -- Pakistan has stepped up to play a useful role in mediating between the United States and Iran in attempting to bring the latest West Asian war to an end. It should not surprise us ... Read More


Nitin Pai: The diversity of Indian genomes should cue changes in India's approach to public health

New Delhi, April 19 -- Initiated six years ago, the GenomeIndia project has already thrown up results that will reshape how Indian society looks at itself and addresses its deepest public policy chall... Read More


Nitin Pai: India must urgently build a coalition to contain the conflict in West Asia

New Delhi, April 13 -- New Delhi must act urgently to gather a coalition of like-minded and like-affected countries to conduct diplomacy with the warring parties in West Asia. The goal is not so much ... Read More


Nitin Pai: When US technology companies effectively contribute to war, they become targets

New Delhi, April 5 -- On 31 March, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened that it would target 18, mostly American, technology companies in retaliation to US-Israeli attacks on Ira... Read More