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From Strategic Convergence to Strategic Complementarity — The Changing Logic of the India-U.S. Partnership

Tariffs ko trade fight samajhna sabse badi galti hai — yeh ek doctrine ka upar wala hissa hai. Liberal internationalism se flexible realism tak, aur India ke liye uska matlab: pichhla decade shared worry pe chala, agla decade shared capability pe chalega. The China worry got India into the room; the capability question decides whether India stays.

Jab Institutions Khud Se Bhaagne Lagti Hain — Collegium, Opacity aur Judicial Accountability ka Sawaal

A sitting Supreme Court judge says out loud that his own institution does not explain how it picks judges. Read past the headline and it becomes four reusable frames — why a judge-made appointment system owes nobody reasons, why the NJAC's death left reform with no route that works, the four dimensions of access to justice, and the shift that turns independence and accountability from opponents into conditions of each other.

BharatNet and Digital Public Infrastructure — Infrastructure, Redefined

Two villages side by side, one with a road and one without — now replace 'road' with 'internet'. BharatNet is the pipe and DPI is what runs through it, and together they force the word infrastructure to mean something new: shared, enabling, non-rival, and built from code rather than cement. The honest half is the delivery record, where less than half the commissioned connections are actually being used.

Dissent Through Institutions — The Social Contract Question Behind the Delhi Protests

Chapter two to the right-to-protest piece: even where protest is legal, is the street the right channel? Rousseau's contract binds both parties — the citizen to exhaust institutional routes, and the state to make those routes worth exhausting.