The moment of Indian independence in 1947 coincided with a rare historical convergence: the collapse of European colonial empires, the emergence of Cold War bipolarity, and the global search for alternative development models outside classical capitalism. India entered this system not as a structurally weak economy but as one burdened by policy choices that would soon suppress its inherited scale. Under Jawaharlal Nehru, economic policy was guided less by empirical performanc

The question of whether the attachment of property in Budgam linked to Ghulam Nabi Fai constitutes harassment or accountability cannot be answered honestly without situating it in a long continuum of statecraft, covert influence, legal doctrine, and historical precedent. Law has never functioned merely as a set of neutral rules floating above politics; it has always been the instrument through which states respond to threats that cannot be countered on the battlefield alone.

The narrative must be extended to interrogate the deeper mechanics by which infrastructure, once financialized and abstracted into investment vehicles, becomes a quiet instrument of influence that rarely announces itself as power. Ancient historians from Thucydides to Kautilya observed that control over grain, water, and roads preceded control over armies, and modern systems science confirms the same logic through network theory, where nodes of high centrality exert dispropor

The evolving security landscape of the Indian subcontinent in the 2020s reveals a dangerous convergence of historical grievances, modern technological opportunism, and transnational ideological engineering that mirrors, in uncanny ways, several ancient and medieval war doctrines whose purpose was never simply territorial conquest but the exhaustion of an enemy’s economic and emotional reservoirs. Pakistan’s recent attempts to deploy Hamas-style saturation attacks with low-cos

The recent public endorsement by Vladimir Panov—Special Representative of the Russian Government for Arctic Cooperation and a senior official at Rosatom, the state corporation responsible for nuclear energy and the infrastructure development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR)—in support of India’s deeper involvement in the NSR represents a remarkable and somewhat unexpected shift in Moscow’s evolving Arctic strategy. Panov’s statement, delivered during an interview with Russian

Migration has always been one of the most persistent, complex, and misunderstood human behaviours, a constant pulse in the global bloodstream that accelerates with opportunity and tightens under the grip of fear or structural inequality. In the twenty-first century, this movement has entered an era of unprecedented complexity, shaped by demographic transitions, widening economic asymmetries, technological acceleration, climate disruptions, protracted conflicts, and an intrusi

As media attention surrounding the commissioning of China’s super-carrier Fujian began to wane, a new set of satellite images from the Dalian shipyard in Liaoning province reignited debates among naval analysts about the propulsion system of China’s next carrier, widely referred to as the Type 004. The imagery highlights a heavily reinforced, cylindrical structure embedded deep within an expanding section of the hull—design features strikingly similar to the reactor containm

In May 2024, India quietly approached the symbolic threshold of completing a full decade under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)–led right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, a decade that has reshaped the architecture of institutions, the political grammar of dissent, the moral registers of public life, and significantly, the very texture of education in institutions both elite and ordinary. The ordinary is perhaps where the deepest ruptures app

South Africa’s hosting of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg on November 22–23, 2025, marked not only a historic moment for the African continent but also a defining test of Pretoria’s diplomatic maturity, strategic resilience, and political credibility at a time of mounting global crises and internal pressures. For the first time since the G20’s formation in 1999, the Summit was held in Africa, symbolically affirming a shift in global discourse towards inclusive development and

The Prelude to Operation Sindoor For nearly a decade before Operation Sindoor was formally acknowledged by the Government of India in May 2025, the intellectual erosion of “strategic restraint” had already begun within the national security establishment. Official briefings would later describe Sindoor as the “first fully integrated coercive-deterrence operation executed under a revised national doctrine,” but internal conversations preceding it stretch back to the aftermath

On November 8, 2025, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) carried out a dramatic sweep, arresting a Hyderabad-based physician and two associates in what is now being described by Indian authorities as a foiled large-scale bioterrorism conspiracy. The principal figure in the operation is Dr. Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed , aged 35, a doctor originally from Hyderabad, Telangana, who, according to the ATS, has been preparing the highly lethal toxin ricin , derived from castor oil, w

Kashmir Times emerged in 1954 as a weekly publication founded by journalist Ved Bhasin, gradually evolving into a daily newspaper by 1964 in what historians describe as one of the earliest English-language press institutions operating from Jammu and later the Kashmir Valley. Researchers of South Asian media often reference Bhasin’s ideological commitments, and a number of commentators argue that his political sympathies aligned with Kashmiri self-determination narratives, inc

In recent years, a sustained transnational campaign has portrayed the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) — a century-old Indian cultural and nationalist organization — as a foreign-influenced entity that ought to register under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) rather than as a standard cultural outreach group under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) . Proponents of this narrative, notably the media outlet Prism , argue that RSS’s international engagements pose

The publication of Adam Smith’s seminal work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 marked a civilizational pivot, not merely for Britain but for the global economic consciousness that would follow over the next two and a half centuries. Smith’s doctrine of “natural liberty,” premised on the belief that human enterprise flourishes best in an environment of minimal restrictions, provided the intellectual scaffolding for what later evolved into

In the long arc of post-colonial global politics, awards that are ostensibly created to “promote peace” often become political instruments that shape international narratives, influence domestic debates, and manufacture legitimacy for ideological networks that transcend national borders, and the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize stands as one such mechanism whose framing, recipients, and geopolitical linkages increasingly demand a more rigorous national-interest-oriented scrutiny. Th

Bangladesh’s political reconfiguration after Sheikh Hasina’s departure in 2024 did not merely shift power; it opened a vacuum in a nation where power vacuums are rarely neutral. When Mohammad Yunus assumed the role of Chief Advisor and promised an election in 2026, many observers thought Bangladesh would enter a predictable, technocratic transition. But the country’s political ecosystem, shaped by decades of ideological contestation and unfinished historical wounds, had alrea

Jaish-e-Mohammed’s renewed focus on women is being sold as a strategic evolution, but in reality it is nothing more than the recycling of old poison in a new, deceptive bottle. For decades, Pakistan’s deep state has experimented with layered psychological and operational templates in Kashmir. Dukhtaran-e-Millat provided the optics, the public face of modesty enforcement, street-level agitation and soft radicalisation of women; Jaish-e-Mohammed supplied the guns, the doctrine

“The Red Fort blast did not just expose a terror plot―it exposed a foreign ideology breathing down India’s neck.” In the immediate aftermath of the Red Fort blast, public suspicion instinctively drifted towards Pakistan, the habitual architect of cross-border terrorism against India, yet digital forensics and communication intercepts led investigators somewhere far more unexpected: Ankara. For the first time, a major terror-linked trail from Indian soil connected directly to

For centuries, North India has witnessed invasions, land wars, and large-scale civilizational contests―from Panipat to Plassey to 1947, 1965, 1971 and the Kargil conflict of 1999. But today’s strategic reality presents a stark paradigm shift: India’s next major confrontation will not unfold on land, but across the vast maritime expanse that surrounds the Indian peninsula. For the first time in modern history, India’s southern flank―traditionally secure, uncontested, and prote

Shri tejas s.dodia Kautilya has given the Mandal Siddhant, which is concentric circles showing different mandals. It is based on the view that neighbours are natural enemies. Since land is the source of material welfare, neighbours aim to acquire the same piece of land…to achieve that aim, Kautilya has given a strategy of SHADGUNYA SIDDHANT (six-fold policy), which is to be used as per the situation. A shadow is moving quietly and deliberately across the map of South Asia, on