This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Pratap Bhanu Mehta offered a searing indictment of Indian capitalism in the Indian Express a few days ago. At a time when tectonic shifts in world politics requires Indian capital to step up, he finds that it“shows little appetite for risk, no courage, little ambition for leadership, and little confidence in its own ability to build.” The Urbanomics blog has a good handle on the state of India’s private sector...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. The past six months have shown that India is not a swing power. We could not deter China from providing active assistance to Pakistan during a military conflict. Our weight proved insufficient to dissuade the United States from singling us out with atrocious tariffs. We have been shown the limitations of India’s national power relative to the United States and China. We should recognise this hard reality if we hav...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is an unedited version of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. China is moving ahead with its plans to build a| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Over the past few weeks heavy rains caused flooding in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Gurgaon, Guwahati and several other cities. Newly inaugurated metro stations, upscale gated communities, technology parks and arterial roads were flooded, causing economic losses and adding to the chaos that characterises India’s urban spaces. A couple of years ago, an online survey found that over 90% of the respondents across ...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is an unedited draft of a special The Intersection column that appeared 2025-05-09 in Mint. In response to last month’s terrorist attack on Pahalgam, India conducted Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7th carefully targeting terrorist-related infrastructure not only in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but in the heartland of Punjab province. Pakistan claims that its forces downed five Indian Air Force aircraft on the Indian side of boundary. Indian strikes continued yesterday, targe...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Some of Donald Trump’s reasons for imposing tariffs on some countries are understandable even if their fitness for purpose is debatable. Demanding that Mexico impose tighter border controls, Europe raise defence expenditure and China prevent fentanyl smuggling or else suffer economic punishment is coercive diplomacy. A good threat comprises of a promise of punishment if the demand is not met and — importantl...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Very few people in India have heard of Donald Shoup, a| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. The Government of India must set up a Cabinet Committee on Science and Technology (CCST) to propel India into a global power of this century. Chaired by the prime minister, it should include the home, finance, external affairs, defence, electronics & information technology, commerce and education ministers. In the current Information Age, technology is a core element of national power, the primary agent of economic ...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. As we come to the end of the year I want to draw attention to a debate that ought to have received greater attention. In August, Indermit Gill, the World Bank’s chief economist shocked everyone by arguing that on current trends it would take India 75 years to achieve achieve a quarter of the United States’ per capita GDP. China would achieve this in ten. Gill called for a new approach and structural reforms for ...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
Welcome to Nitin Pai’s cyberspace. You are in the structured section of my domain where I have my blog posts, newspaper columns, updates on my teaching and research, and other things you had always been warned about. This is my list of fiction for 2024. I have rated them into categories, but within a category they are in no particular order. They are in two categories: completely read or re-read, and partially read or set aside. (Related: Year in Fiction 2023, 2022 and 2021) Where is my lis...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Imagine an interaction where you encounter the worst side of your fellow citizens. Anger, outrage, swearing and threats, with every possibility of a physical altercation. Imagine this happens a couple of times every day and you have no choice but to suffer such interactions. What would your opinion be of other people? What would theirs be of you? Can endlessly repeated negative interactions form the ...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
This is an unedited draft from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Why do ordinary citizens across the country have to stage public protests to demand justice for the victim of a heinous crime at a Kolkata hospital? If we peel away the extraordinary brutality and the political dimension and get to the core of the matter, we find that people have no confidence in the law enforcement system. It was the same in Pune a few months ago, where people had to get out onto ...| Nitin, you can't be serious!
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This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Now that the 2024 Olympics have come to an end, it is| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is an unedited draft from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Writing in the Indian Express last Monday, Sanjaya| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. A number of analysts attribute the BJP’s| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. The regional head of a well-regarded global| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. I spent the mid-2000s arguing why Indian foreign| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. This was written on 2024-04-18, before Israeli| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. A few years ago, a mayor of a Karnataka town asked me how she could| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Published 2023-11-20 The most significant achievement of last week’s| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. In the summer of the year 416 BCE an Athenian fleet turned up on the| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of my fortnightly The Intersection column for Mint. There are so many crises raging around the world that you can ask me| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. BabelIron Widow Adam Morgan has a good account of what| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Five years after Bengaluru’s Church Street received a facelift, it is| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Ranade’s essays are preserved on archive.org. He was among the first| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is an unedited draft of my The Intersection column in Mint. I’m likely to get into trouble with many of my friends for saying this, but I think| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is a draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. In the past few weeks the world has discovered that the Chinese| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Diaspora politics is going to get a lot more| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited version of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Ammu Joseph remembers Navroze Contractor. The| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is a version of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. I believe technology is a unique human capacity that can| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Rajasthan’s new law governing the welfare of gig workers has much to| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. “I am of the opinion” Ambedkar told the Constituent| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is a draft of an op-ed in Business Standard that I co-wrote with Ajay Shah The IIT JEE (Indian Institute of Technology joint entrance exam) is| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is an unedited draft of my The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. The Siddaramaiah-Shivakumar government’s move to| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
This is an unedited draft of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Prominent ‘tech bros’ are now predicting a| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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This is a pre-edit of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. We have had three decades of decentralised local governments.| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
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