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UAE Exit Rewrites Oil Power

The UAE’s May 1, 2026 exit from OPEC and OPEC+ is a strategic, sovereignty‑driven move that weakens cartel cohesion, raises near‑term price risk while enabling the UAE to expand...

SITI Odisha: From Planning to Transformation

When institutions change, the direction of a state often changes with them. Odisha’s decision to replace its legacy...

Regulating Foreign Funds: A Necessary Tightrope Walk

The proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, reflects the Indian government’s continuing effort to tighten oversight of...

“The most powerful nation is the one that never abandons its soldiers.”

The story from that cold evening in 1997, when Bill Clinton stopped his motorcade to sit beside a...

Past Lessons, Future Risks: The Iran Ceasefire and the Shifting Balance of Power

The two week US-Iran ceasefire expires on 22 Apr. It was more of a tactical pause than a...
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Naxalism in India: Policies, Operations, and the Decline of the Red Corridor

Origins and IdeologyHow a peasant revolt evolved into India’s longest-running insurgency.The Naxal movement began in 1967 in Naxalbari, West Bengal, as a radical peasant...

Between Energy, Diplomacy and Diaspora – Calibrated Indian Neutrality in West Asia

On 23 Mar 2026, Indian PM Modi spoke in the Parliament on the ongoing conflict in West Asia for about 24 minutes.He framed the...

India’s Energy Security : From Bhabha’s Vision to SHANTI Reality

Thorium is re emerging as a strategic lever in India’s quest for reliable, low carbon energy security, but policy, technology and institutional gaps must...

India’s Russian Oil Policy: Strategic Misstep or Sanctions Survival?

Viral Alarm on Hormuz HoldupIran’s Hormuz stranglehold forces President Trump to call President Putin (not vice versa) on 9 Mar 26. Russia flips from...

The Bomb That May or May Not Exist

It did not come as a thunderclap. There was no missile test lighting up the desert sky, no satellite image revealing a hidden silo,...

Israeli Gas, IMEC and the New Energy Chessboard of West Asia

Why the Eastern Mediterranean May Become Bharat’s Next Strategic Energy FrontierHistory often hides its most profound transformations beneath the surface. Sometimes literally.For decades, the...
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