Nation Craft, State Craft February 8, 2018 Twitter Wars: How Rules of Engagement are Changing In the good old days of offline political discourse, politicians had platforms to speak they received in their rallies, houses of assemblies and parliaments and…
Nation Craft, State Craft February 1, 2018 Civic Tech as a Platform of Engagement There’s an employee of the Irrigation Department in the Ministry of Water Resources in a part of rural India (I can’t be specific here because…
Nation Craft, State Craft January 25, 2018 Mann Ki Baat – Heard Loud and Clear This weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the 40th edition of Mann Ki Baat – one of his significant outreach programmes from the PMO….
Nation Craft, State Craft January 18, 2018 Hugplomacy – Hard Push for Soft Power Hugplomacy in Action As the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived for a historic visit to India, It was no surprise that he was welcomed…
Nation Craft, State Craft January 11, 2018 Bad Reads and Lesser Evils – Lessons on Political Communications from Gujarat Assembly Elections, 2017 I am willing to bet that in the last few weeks, at least one of your contacts has proudly hurled this joke towards you on…