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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
Trump-Xi summit: China doesn’t put too much score on this visit; outcome won’t matter much for India
Whatever Donald Trump and Xi Jinping decide in Beijing, India’s China problem will remain entirely India’s to manage, perhaps in a much more challenging environment
Iran war has upended Gulf security: What happens next?
Caught between Iran’s retaliation and Israel’s growing regional dominance, the Gulf states are entering an era of deep strategic uncertainty
New FTA playbook: India reworks trade policy to de-risk from China
Since the pandemic, India has reshaped its trade policy to reduce Chinese dependence, pursue pragmatic FTAs, and back them with strong domestic reforms
Europe’s real problem is dependency on America, not Donald Trump
The US decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany is only part of a bigger problem plaguing Europe
Masterclass in bluff: US FARA filings reveal Pakistan’s desperate lobbying during Op Sindoor
As per the recently surfaced Foreign Agents Registration Act filings, Pakistan mounted an extensive and urgent lobbying campaign in Washington during India's Operation Sindoor in May 2025
Taiwan is on Xi’s menu, and Trump may be tempted to bargain it away
To Beijing, Donald Trump looks less like a strategic rival and more like a negotiator waiting for the right price
Power and pageantry: Ten things to expect from the Trump-Xi summit
The summits are not endpoints. They are the mechanism by which two countries, which can neither resolve their differences nor afford to rupture them, manage the interval between crises
Built and rebuilt, Somnath echoes India’s eternal civilisational resolve
India’s resurgence, has to be driven by a deeper spirit of resilience and by a lasting commitment to preserving and rejuvenating her cultural symbols
Mali: A new jihadist caliphate in making
The emerging terror hub in the Sahel, with Mali as its epicentre, is not a regional but a global threat
The great game of maritime chokepoints holds the world economy hostage
Global trade and oil depend on five strategic maritime chokepoints — Hormuz, Malacca, Bab Al Mandeb, Suez, and Panama — where growing US-China-Iran rivalry threatens economic stability and world peace
From Somnath to Pokhran: When Dharma meets Vigyan
May 11 marks the confluence of India’s civilisational faith and scientific strength, from the restoration of Somnath to the success of Pokhran-II
India’s underpriced fuel regime is a ticking debt bomb
A gradual restoration of daily fuel-price revisions may ultimately prove less disruptive than delaying adjustment until the economic pressures become far harder to manage
No controversy can dim Vande Mataram’s enduring legacy in nation-building
Vande Mataram – the song and phrase – is the strongest connection that the post-independence generation can have with the indomitable spirit of our freedom fighters whose sacrifices have earned us the country we now call our own
US Sutra | Dominance breeds resentment: Why the US is so unpopular
Donald Trump may well be the trigger or tipping point, but the real cause lies elsewhere and goes much deeper
Trump’s ‘Epic Fury’ might be over, but the global economy will still be bleeding
The Iran war stands at a very critical inflection point: neither Washington nor Tehran has any appetite to restart hostilities, but neither is willing to stand down either
Trump’s praise of British colonialism revives the ghosts of the Raj
It was not colonialism which led to the renewal of colonial societies but the response to it. The innate strength of indigenous cultures and civilisations asserted itself and brought about renewal and, in some cases, as in India, a renaissance
Why the world tolerates Pakistan terror-nuclear nexus
The world has repeatedly argued that states associated with terrorism must never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. But in Pakistan’s case, the world continued to look away until it was too late
The most critical target of Operation Sindoor
The strike on the Abbas camp in Kotli pre-emptively dismantled LeT’s most dangerous fidayeen training hub, neutralising a fully prepared suicide squad on the verge of deployment, turning the operation from retaliatory to pre-emptive
The great mediocrity machine: First AI killed bad writing, now it’s flattening the good
AI may seem to have democratised writing, but the truth is it has industrialised mediocrity. Literature, after all, was never meant to be smooth and easy. It was supposed to be bumpy, argumentative and, more importantly, human
As BJP rises in Bengal, Opposition looks lost and rudderless
Mamata’s refusal to tender resignation contravening India’s democratic tradition, her baseless accusations, the reckless comments by INDI Alliance leaders, the ‘public letter’ to Trump, reek of a fatalism that run bone-deep among Opposition ranks
BRICS gateway is narrowing amid rising geopolitical faultlines
No doubt BRICS is more focused on the geo-economic dimensions of cooperation, but geopolitical divisions and big-power competition obviously tend to impinge on its non-adversarial stance
China’s rare earth trap in Myanmar keeps India’s eastern front burning
Myanmar is not a peripheral crisis but an active strategic theatre where great-power rivalry, insurgent dynamics, and resource control intersect
From Ukraine to Iran: The closing channels of strategic communication in an uncertain world
The central paradox of our time is that even as the tools of communication have multiplied, the quality of strategic communication between states has deteriorated
The displacement myth: Why planet-scale AI job disruption is not at our door
The responsible frame is one of graduated delegation… That is a gradual shift in the division of labour, not a civilisational rupture
Jhalmuri in Jhargram: The moment the Modi wave peaked in Bengal
The 2026 West Bengal election saw a Jhalmuri wave. In fact, the final push was PM Modi’s unscripted, unplanned break at the local Jhalmuri shop in Jhargram
When corporations act as states: Rethinking power in the Big Tech age
The world is moving towards a hybrid order, where states and corporations exist as parallel centres of power
After the polls, saving the eastern border
Why securing the eastern border is the key task of incoming Bengal, Assam governments
India must draw strategic lessons from the Iran war
Historians and pundits can debate whether the US-Israeli war on Iran was necessary or just, but India must remember that its greatness will depend not on questioning the past, but on preparing for the future