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Why the thriving Indian diaspora in the US is not an asset anymore

The excessive publicity about Indian success stories and their high income and wealth levels has begun to breed envy and resentment in non-elite...

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Jaithirth Rao

US bullying spurred Green Revolution. Let tariffs give us a Business Revolution

Perhaps the present crisis and trauma can force our country into something resembling that special moment we found in the sixties. Perhaps we can...

13.08.2025 4

Jaithirth Rao

Everyone’s shouting about the Election Commission. Lazy outrage comes cheap

The hoo-ha about the Election Commission, about electoral rolls, and about EVMs suggests that irksome comic relief remains a part of the loud debates...

08.08.2025 10

Jaithirth Rao

16 steps to get a big beautiful US-India deal—all we need are ‘opening up’ announcements

Trump needs a win. India can exploit this when drafting its strategy.

31.07.2025 6

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A letter to Defence Minister, with lessons from American fighter pilot John Boyd: Jaithirth Rao

India’s next defence leap needs American fighter pilot John Boyd’s ‘do something’ philosophy.

16.07.2025 10

Jaithirth Rao

It doesn’t end here. India must prepare for mightier neighbours

India must focus on creating an ecosystem that dominates the technologies of future wars. Public-private partnerships are a key way to achieve this.

13.05.2025 10

Jaithirth Rao

Canada and Australia have decided to become citadels of wokeism

Unfortunately and unhappily for the British, they must spend a few more years sipping from the poisoned chalice of Starmerian Labour.

05.05.2025 10

Jaithirth Rao

Economists criticising Trump’s tariff blitz need to brush up on basics of international trade

Supporting a position does not mean that we abandon nuances. Yet, this is what has happened to all ‘respectable’ economists aka free trade purists.

10.04.2025 10

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Some fashionable words make no sense. Let’s start with ‘activist’

I find so many fashionable words of today quite inexplicable.

03.04.2025 30

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Don’t use Western idea of religion or ideology to understand ‘dharma’. It’s much more complex

SN Balagangadhara, a professor at Ghent University, said that by accepting ‘religion’ as something that we must willy-nilly engage with, we are...

13.02.2025 10

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Bibek Debroy Will Be Remembered As An “Acharya”

03.11.2024 10

Jaithirth Rao

Bibek Debroy was an ‘Acharya’ in India’s intellectual history

In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and...

01.11.2024 10

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Tirupati: More Than Laddus, It's The Story Of Us

23.10.2024 10

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I saw Ratan Tata standing at the ATM in my building like a common man that day—Jaithirth Rao

Ratan Tata never made me feel that, just because I was no longer a powerful banker but rather a struggling entrepreneur, I had to be treated less...

11.10.2024 5

Jaithirth Rao

Tirupati is the story of us. It’s more than laddus

The temple rituals take from multiple Hindu sects: Vaishnava, Shaiva, Kaumara, and Shakta. This integrated vision has made Tirupati the most...

05.10.2024 4

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West’s 1930s obsession is warping its view of today’s threats. Trump & Putin aren’t ‘Hitlers’

The long shadow of the 1930s blinds us to the fact that the US and NATO have been behaving like Nazi Germany, while Putin was the appeaser until...

23.09.2024 6

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Zareer Masani showed us how to respond to the superficial JNU-AMU anti-colonialists

Like his father Minoo before him, Zareer Masani had moved away from undergraduate leftism to a mature conservative stance.

14.08.2024 8

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JD Vance & his New Right can’t be dismissed glibly—he appeals to something deep, necessary

Vance’s speech forced me to start researching the New Right, an exercise which I think will be useful for our own think tanks.

19.07.2024 2

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Why the thriving Indian diaspora in the US is not an asset anymore

Jaithirth Rao

US bullying spurred Green Revolution. Let tariffs give us a Business Revolution

Jaithirth Rao

Everyone’s shouting about the Election Commission. Lazy outrage comes cheap

Jaithirth Rao

16 steps to get a big beautiful US-India deal—all we need are ‘opening up’ announcements

Jaithirth Rao

A letter to Defence Minister, with lessons from American fighter pilot John Boyd: Jaithirth Rao

Jaithirth Rao

It doesn’t end here. India must prepare for mightier neighbours

Jaithirth Rao

Canada and Australia have decided to become citadels of wokeism

Jaithirth Rao

Economists criticising Trump’s tariff blitz need to brush up on basics of international trade

Jaithirth Rao

Some fashionable words make no sense. Let’s start with ‘activist’

Jaithirth Rao

Don’t use Western idea of religion or ideology to understand ‘dharma’. It’s much more complex

Jaithirth Rao

Bibek Debroy Will Be Remembered As An “Acharya”

Jaithirth Rao

Bibek Debroy was an ‘Acharya’ in India’s intellectual history

Jaithirth Rao

Tirupati: More Than Laddus, It's The Story Of Us

Jaithirth Rao

I saw Ratan Tata standing at the ATM in my building like a common man that day—Jaithirth Rao

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Tirupati is the story of us. It’s more than laddus

Jaithirth Rao

West’s 1930s obsession is warping its view of today’s threats. Trump & Putin aren’t ‘Hitlers’

Jaithirth Rao

Zareer Masani showed us how to respond to the superficial JNU-AMU anti-colonialists

Jaithirth Rao

JD Vance & his New Right can’t be dismissed glibly—he appeals to something deep, necessary

Jaithirth Rao