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China’s rise, America’s fear: No escaping the Thucydides Trap
A US-China war might not be inevitable, but both countries are trapped in a vicious struggle for power and dominance
Harnessing civic responsibility: India’s response to the US-Iran energy shock
Amid the global turmoil unleashed by the conflict in West Asia, India’s strategy has stood apart by placing citizens at the centre of national economic defence
A masterstroke in sweet diplomacy: How a humble Indian toffee conquered global headlines
In a world often burdened by strict protocol, soaring inflation and complicated alliances, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s confectionery diplomacy proves that the simplest gestures are sometimes the most effective
Norway’s snake charmer cartoon exposes the racism that ‘press freedom rank’ seeks to mask
Norway’s controversial cartoon on Prime Minister Narendra Modi has highlighted how colonial-era stereotypes about India continue to survive beneath the veneer of Western liberalism
US Sutra | India faces tough strategic choices post Trump-Xi summit
The summit signals a shifting global order in which India can no longer afford strategic ambiguity
Reckless terror policy puts Pakistan’s own geography at risk
Gen Upendra Dwivedi’s blunt warning on Islamabad-backed terrorism has exposed the deep insecurity and strategic contradictions within the Pakistan army establishment.
The mirror that wasn’t held up: India missed making a civilisational argument in Oslo
The Norwegian journalist asked why India should be trusted. The civilisational answer was sitting right there, unharvested: trust a civilisation that has never started a world war, never built a slave empire, and never enriched itself by selling the fuels that now threaten the poorest nations on earth
A Norwegian reporter, PM Modi and the West’s democracy delusion
More than journalistic arrogance, the Norway episode exposes the West’s enduring inability to comprehend Bharat’s democracy. The time has come for the country to build its own frameworks for evaluating democracy and press freedom
The rupee is falling into India’s development paradox
The country’s energy vulnerability is not separate from its development story — it is increasingly a consequence of it
Silence is not consent: The Taliban’s war on women and Islam
The Taliban justify their gender apartheid as ‘sharia-compliant’, although it is in direct conflict with the core teachings of Islam on justice and equality. Faith does not mean fear. A nation cannot heal when half its people are silenced
India’s Act East policy is now armed and operational: Decoding Rajnath Singh’s Vietnam visit
From missile exports to multinational military drills, India is steadily positioning itself as Southeast Asia’s preferred security partner
Track 2 diplomacy with Pakistan is a dangerous illusion
Talks with Pakistan have long served less as a pathway to peace and more as a mechanism for strategic deception and delay
PM has made an appeal for EVs. Now, it’s over to carmakers
While various states provide robust incentives, there are almost no EV models in the sub-12 lakh category
If you are surprised the US plotted Imran Khan’s ouster, pop a red pill
Pakistan’s former PM paid the price for trying to author an independent foreign policy by crossing US red lines; this is why Washington prefers military dictators like Munir
India-Africa Summit: Global South can’t wait any longer for the West to fix the world
As India and Africa meet for their fourth summit in Delhi, the message is clear: The West is neither willing nor able to repair the broken global order
The great Rawalpindi valet service: How to mediate a war by parking jets
Pakistan’s claim of neutrality in the US-Iran conflict came under scrutiny after reports suggested it allowed Iranian Air Force jets to use the Nur Khan air base as a safe haven from possible American strikes.
Trump-Xi meeting: Managing tensions, not resolving them
The Beijing summit has helped ease immediate tensions, but deep divisions over trade, Taiwan and global strategy remain firmly unresolved.
The civilised cannibal: Why Hannibal Lector feels more real than ever today
Thirty-five years after 'The Silence of the Lambs' turned cannibalism into a metaphor for cultivated evil, the film feels less like psychological fiction and more like cultural diagnosis. In an age of elite scandals, bizarre celebrity rituals and collapsing public trust, Hannibal Lecter no longer terrifies because he seems unimaginable — but because he increasingly does not
‘Ink, Saffron and Freedom’: Memoir of a journalist and a nation
Kedar Nath Gupta’s book is less a memoir in the intimate, inward-looking sense and more a primary chronicle — a reporter’s ledger of a nation being made, unmade and remade
Britain’s political crisis: Starmer under siege amid Labour revolt
Keir Starmer’s premiership now stands as a textbook example of how quickly authority can drain from a leader who once appeared unassailable
When corporate interests take over diplomacy: Inside Trump’s transactional approach
If the President of the United States behaves primarily as the chief negotiator for corporate America, then alliances themselves become contingent commodities
With US in a quagmire, China gains a strategic upper hand
China does not need an outright American collapse to advance its position. Structural shifts in international order rarely occur through singular moments of defeat
Head-on | Xi, Trump and India’s strategic equidistance in a world of declining Great Powers
The Xi Jinping-Donald Trump summit was a meeting between two declining Great Powers. Meanwhile, India’s foreign policy has long been structured on the need for strategic equidistance between China and the US
Modi-MbZ meet: India has been investing heavily in ties with UAE, and the relationship is paying back in spades
The UAE is today India’s third-largest trading partner, our second-largest export destination, seventh-largest cumulative source of foreign direct investment. No other Gulf state comes close in terms of breadth and institutional depth
Artificial intelligence: Human cognition at the edge of its next transition
The risk is not that humans will fail to adapt in the long run. The risk is that individuals and institutions may offload faster than they can reorganise, and the gap between what is lost and what replaces it becomes destabilising
PM Modi’s UAE-Europe visit signals India’s quest for strategic autonomy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE and key European nations showcases India’s expanding role in shaping a multipolar global order
Semiconductors and the Arctic: What PM Modi seeks in Europe
In Netherlands and Norway, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is applying a quiet but determined strategy towards deepening sovereign goals
Beijing summit: Xi-Trump tango must wake Delhi up to a new geopolitical reality
The reality is that while Washington is slowly coming to terms with Beijing’s rise, it does not want Bharat to become another China
India’s retreat from Chabahar will benefit China and hurt American interests
Any Indian retreat that strengthens China’s position would be a strategic setback for the United States
Trump, Xi and Cold War 2.0: The dangerous battle for global supremacy has begun
The US-China competition is here to stay, and the rest of the world has to navigate carefully between pressure and prudence, rhetoric and reality, competition and coexistence