• "The story of two ceasefires", The Hindu, June 12, 2018
• "The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security review: Chinks in the armour", The Hindu, June 11, 2018
• "The fading appeal of soft power", The Hindu, May 23, 2018
• "A time to think fast: on the US exit from the Iran deal", May 12, 2018
• "Substance and optics of the summit", The Hindu, April 30, 2018
• "Data exposes what India & Pakistan don’t reveal about the constant ‘ceasefire violations’", The Print, April 3, 2018
• "India-Pakistan ties: time to reach out across the border", The Hindu, March 30, 2018
• "The strategy of conflict", The Hindu, March 16, 2018
• "Let the chips fall where they may", The Hindu, February 12, 2018
• "The unquiet front", The Indian Express, February 8, 2018
• "Troubled Times in South Asia", Pragati, February 7, 2018
• "Signs of a geopolitical whirlwind", The Hindu, 2January 20, 2018
• "Behind the ‘enemy’ line", The Hindu, January 4, 2018
• "A game of chicken in the Korean peninsula", The Hindu, December 11, 2017
• "The Secessionist Movement in Jammu and Kashmir and India–Pakistan Relations", International Studies, Sage, Vol 51, Issue 1-4, 2017
• "Smart-balancing China", The Hindu, November 27, 2017
• "The new great game as it unfolds", The Hindu, October 30, 2017
• "Diary of a very long year", The Hindu, September 26, 2017
• "CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: A LINE ON FIRE", Peaceworks, USIP, Washington DC, September 2017
• "Time to Consider a Trilateral Asian ABM Treaty", Off Ramps Initiative, Stimson Center South Asia Program, September 5, 2017
• "Lessons from Doklam', The Hindu, August 30, 2017
• (Co-authored with Kaveri Bedi), "Patriot games at Attari-Wagah", The Hindu, August 21, 2017
• "When the paradigm shifts: on PM Modi's new brand of politics", The Hindu, August 10, 2017
• "Paint the united colours of India", The Hindu, July 12, 2017
• "The art of positive messaging", The Hindu, JUNE 21, 2017
• "The loss of innocence", The Hindu, MAY 27, 2017
• "Lonely and disinterested", The Hindu, April 19, 2017
• "War, state and martyrdom", The Hindu, March 04, 2017
• "A brave new self-help world", The Hindu, February 21, 2017
• "The nowhere people next door", The Hindu, January 23, 2017.
• "All’s not well in the Army", The Hindu, January 3, 2016
• "A year of living dangerously", The Hindu, 22 December, 2016
• "India-Pak Ceasefire Agreement Is Dead, It’s Time for a New One", The Quint, December 7, 2016
• "Reimagining the liberal project", The Hindu, December 5, 2016
• "Gazing at a longer horizon", The Hindu, November 7, 2016
• "Review of Sumit Ganguly's Deadly Impasse", The Hindu, November 5, 2016
• "Rise of the garrison state", The Hindu, October 19, 2016
• "PUTTING THE PERIPHERY AT THE CENTER: Indian States’ Role in Foreign Policy", Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2016
• "Solving the Pakistan puzzle", The Hindu, September 26, 2016
• "Kashmir and the clash of symbolisms", The Hindu, August 29, 2016
• "Disquiet on the western front", The Hindu, August 18, 2016
• "Living in denial on Kashmir", The Hindu, July 14, 2016
• "Law that should go: Supreme Court challenges Afspa’s ‘license to kill’", July 8, 2016
• "Why go it alone?", The Hindu, June 3, 2016
• "Losing the neighbourhood", The Hindu, May 18, 2016
• "The Pathankot paradigm", The Hindu, April 1, 2016
• "Our national security mismanagement", The Hindu, March 16, 2016
• "There’s a cop in my class", (Co-written with A K Ramakrishnan), February 27, 2016
• "A peaceful way out on Siachen", The Hindu, February 11, 2016
• Negotiating with the Taliban", The Hindu, January 29, 2016
• "A Christmas course correction", The Hindu, December 29, 2015
• "Straws in the Paris wind", The Hindu, November 27, 2015
• "Fighting terror from Mumbai to Paris", The Hindu, November 16, 2015
• "Mainstreaming a nuclear Pakistan", The Hindu, October 16, 2015
• "Rekindling the disarmament momentum", The Hindu, September 21, 2015
• "Is Pakistan unable to defeat terrorism?", Greater Kashmir, September 19, 2015
• "A guest of the President", The Hindu, June 28, 2015
• "Brick and mortar of foreign policy", The Hindu,12 June, 2015
• "For a Look Northwest policy", The Hindu, May 13, 2015.
• "In search of a home", Greater Kashmir, May 9, 2015
• "Losing the Northwestern Plot", Greater Kashmir, April 26, 2015
• "Give peace a chance", Greater Kashmir
• "Uneasy coalition in the Valley", The Hindu, April 10, 2015
• "Understanding the PDP-BJP alliance", Greater Kashmir, April 5, 2015
• Is Mufti Sayeed anti-national?, Greater Kashmir, March 22, 2015
• "A Needless Controversy", Greater Kashmir, March 15, 2015
• "Why is Pakistan unhappy with PDP?"
• "A mortar-for-bullet game", The Hindu, February 5, 2015.
• "Limits of showmanship", Greater Kashmir, February 1, 2015.
• "The devil lies within: What can spoil the India-US nuke deal", Hindustan Times, January 29, 2015.
• Atop a Moral High Horse
• "The politics of renunciation", Greater Kashmir, 11 January 2015.
• "Demythifying Kashmirs Communal Vote", Greater Kashmir, December 28, 2014
• "Kashmirs fractured mandate", The Hindu, December 24, 2014
• "Pakistan's Terrorism Dilemma", Greater Kashmir, December 21, 2014
• "Modi's Pakistan Problem", Greater Kashmir, November 30, 2014
• "Miles to go before we sleep", Greater Kashmir, November 16, 2014.
• Civilian supremacy and defence reforms, The Hindu, October 28, 2014
• T.C.A. Rangachari's review of my book "KASHMIR AND INDO-PAK RELATIONS: POLITICS OF RECONCILIATION " in The Book Review, VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER 10 October 2014
• LoC Standoff in Perspective
• Why I liked Haider'
• Negotiating an Indo-Japan Nuclear deal, Greater Kashmir, August 31, 2014
• Regulating India's nuclear estate, The Hindu, August 29, 2014
• The limits of democracy, Greater Kashmir, 22 January 2014.
• Strategic Implications of the Indo-US Standoff, Greater Kashmir, January 12, 2014
• Lies, maids and diplomatic immunity, Greater Kashmir, 29 December, 2013
• Demythifying Article 370, Greater Kashmir, December 8, 2013
• Questions from Kashmir, Greater Kashmir, December 1, 2013
• Dr. Singh's Pakistan Policy: An Assessment, Greater Kashmir. January 5, 2013.
• Playing Chicken with Pakistan, Greater Kashmir, August 24, 2014
• "PUTTING THE PERIPHERY AT THE CENTER: Indian States’ Role in Foreign Policy", Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 2016

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