Sanjeet
@sanjeet38
PhD candidate, JNU: Swatantra's FP. History & IR. ✍️: ThePrint, National Interest, The Diplomat,The India Forum, Australian Outlook.
theprint.in/opinion/swatan… My @ThePrintIndia piece argues that the Swatantra Party's offensive strategy & foreign policy during the 1962 war might have relevance for India's China policy today. Also discussed is the role of pol opposition during the national security crisis.
Minoo Masani certainly understood well the dynamics of nuclear deterrence in arguing against a private extended deterrence guarantee from the US.
Swatantra MP M Ruthnaswamy on the issue of India's laggard public diplomacy efforts vis-a-vis Pakistan in 1965.
Swatantra party leader Kapur Singh on the ongoing Indian debate over the abrogation of the Indus Water Treaty in the immediate aftermath of the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
Text interviews are always most welcome, as are commissions for op-eds, essays, and book reviews. I’m desperate to return to reading and writing for pleasure, and these formats might just help me rejuvenate.
Out today, 20 July: Believer’s Dilemma—the second volume of my study on Vajpayee and the Hindu Right. Now available at bookshops! (Most of them are happy to ship across lands and oceans.) Please do share it with friends or family who might be interested in something like this.
"This book...argues that the Postcolonial Left’s relentless attacks on the “epistemic violence” of Western norms of rationality and modernity are providing the conceptual vocabulary for the Hindu Right’s project of decolonizing the Hindu mind." thewire.in/culture/books/…
LaSpisa and Mitchell (2025) find that democratic dyads are more prone to maritime conflict due to stronger domestic interests, executive constraints, and weaker territorial norms at sea. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…
Look what (coincidentally!) just got delivered.
To be published this month!
The Indian humanities/social sciences, he argues, are not structured by thought but by disciplinary consensus. The human subject they presuppose is secular, rational, universal. But in practice, it is urban, English-fluent, estranged from vernacular intelligibility.
The Trump Factor | VOL 1 ISSUE 4: Book Review: Strategy and Grand Strategy by #JoshuaRovner In an era of rising interstate conflict and great power rivalry, “grand strategy” is back in vogue. But the term is often misused—blurred with “strategy” itself. In his Adelphi Series…
Sharing my piece for @IndiasWorld_mag (Issue IV) on the ascent of the Indian whisky in the global market, including insights from a leading insider entrepreneur in the space. indiasworld.in/spirited-away-…
pleased to share my review of @JoshRovner1's Strategy and Grand Strategy for the latest issue of India's World magazine. indiasworld.in/strategy-and-g…
"for every ₹100 the government spends on salaries, Indian society burns ₹168 in a collective effort of rent-seeking just to decide who gets them. The winners are happy but the loss to Indian society of unemployed young...workers is in the billions." marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
There are two intellectual traditions which dominate modern thought. The first, which we will call the "theorists," has its roots in continental philosophy and anti-racist/anti-colonial thought. Most of its ideas are left-coded, but many of the ideas current on the right today…
a welcome development...
No talk today about rules-based order, sustainable development, democracy, inclusivity, etc. No surprise. That's been replaced by clearer language on security & stability being the foundations of FOIP. More explicit mention of water canons, unsafe naval acty, etc. Good. (3/6)
Philosophy of History If you are looking for a brief but excellent introduction to the philosophy of history, this entry by philosopher of science @dlittle30 in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is highly recommended. Link: plato.stanford.edu/entries/histor…