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National Security

Essays on India’s frontiers as delivery problems — border settlement on the China line, displacement and border regime on the Myanmar line, and the institutional design behind both.

Politics is the promise. Governance is the delivery.

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4 essays in this category

Listed newest first. Each takes one architecture at a time and closes on a prescriptive view written for a practitioner, not a commentator.

NEWEST FIRST

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The span of the record

This category runs from 16 AUGUST 2026 → 19 AUGUST 2026. Where an argument rests on a dated series, the essay carries a data-vintage note under its dek.

16 AUGUST 2026 → 19 AUGUST 2026

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Every figure attributed

Each essay names its sources — PIB, RBI, CAG, NJDG, the Economic Survey, a parliamentary reply. Where sources conflict, the essay says so rather than picking one silently.

NEVER AN UNSOURCED FIGURE

The essays

Every essay in National Security, newest first.

All essaysInstitutions & ReformPolitical EconomyWork & LivelihoodsState CapacityFederalism & the NortheastGovernance & DeliveryResources & ClimateJustice & LibertyHealth & Human DevelopmentNational SecurityEducation & SkillsThe Fiscal SettlementThe Degree Settlement
01National SecurityFifty-Eight Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty-One — Manipur’s Displaced and the Border Policy Above ThemManipur’s Home Department puts the displaced at 58,881 and the relief camps still open at 174. Above them, India has scrapped a working border rule and replaced it with a fence less than two per cent built and a pass system two neighbouring states administer differently.19 AUGUST 202602National SecurityTen Lakh Uniforms and Three Different Answers — India's Internal Security Manpower ProblemParliament was told this year that the central armed police forces are short of 93,139 people, and also that they are short of 61,738. The same reply implies 69,246. A state that cannot state its own vacancy cannot plan its own recruitment.19 AUGUST 202603National SecurityThe Village Is the Claim — India Is Building Its Northern Border and Not Counting Who Lives ThereThe Vibrant Villages Programme exists to reverse outmigration from the villages along the China frontier. Four years in, the state publishes roads sanctioned, bridges approved and activities held. It does not publish how many people live in those villages.16 AUGUST 202604National SecurityThe Sanction Is Not the Squadron — India's Defence Money Now Moves; Its Timelines Do NotIndia's defence budget has crossed ₹7.84 lakh crore and, for the first time in years, the capital account was spent almost in full. The binding constraint has moved from money to time — and time is the one variable the system does not publish.16 AUGUST 2026