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Capital
Or, How the Smart Money Got China Spectacularly Wrong While Calling India a Bad Bet
May 25
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Accession (The Kashmir dispute)
How a Maharaja's Sex Scandal, Seven Days of British Ownership, One Panicked Signature, and Seventy-Eight Years of Spectacular Mutual Stubbornness…
May 11
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The Gatekeepers
Or, How Indians Didn't Just Export Indian Culture — They Decided What Western Culture Was
Mar 9
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The Conquest Nobody Planned
Or, How a Guy Who Has Seen Exactly Five Indian Movies Explains Why India Won Without Trying
Mar 2
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The Foreign Policy Paradox: Part 2.
How Nixon Called Indira Gandhi a "Bitch" While Supporting Genocide, and Why India Still Hasn't Forgiven America
Feb 9
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The Foreign Policy Paradox: A Two-Part Series
How My Father Became India’s One-Man Pro-American Lobby While Hating “Gotten”
Feb 2
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The Forgetting
How India Buried Its Saviors—And Why It Matters
Jan 5
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The Revolution That Wasn’t Televised
How India Ditched Its Socialist Pajamas for Capitalist Jeans—While Nobody Was Watching
Dec 29, 2025
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The Precipice
How a Partition Refugee, a Polyglot Novelist, and a World Bank Economist Found Themselves Standing Between India and Civilizational Collapse
Dec 22, 2025
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The Escape Valves
When the IT Industry Said “No Thanks,” Dominant Castes Demanded to Be Called “Backward,” and a Million Indians Just Left
Dec 8, 2025
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The Third Rail
How a "Temporary" 10-Year Policy Became an Immortal 75-Year Mathematical Impossibility Covering 60% of the Population
Dec 1, 2025
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Two Million People, 368 Jobs, and One Question About JavaScript
Or, How India Wastes 1.4% of GDP on Rent-Seeking Disguised as Meritocracy
Nov 24, 2025
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