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More Than Reactors: The Russia-Iran $25 Billion Signal
In West Asia the repeated collapse of ceasefire arrangements and their extension suggest that the United States has walked itself into a corner here. No easy exits.The most important...
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Turkey’s Outreach to India: A Realisation That Supporting Pakistan Comes at a Cost
Speaking at the prestigious Raffles Lecture hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Singapore on...
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From Qatar to Coal: Can India Finally Break Its Energy Dependence?
PM Modi has repeatedly urged Indians to reduce dependence on imports and build a more self-reliant economy. Atmanirbhar...
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Venezuela’s Oil: Who Really Controls It, Who Benefits, and Why It Matters
The struggle over Venezuelan oil has never been merely about energy. It is about political power, geopolitical influence,...
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Cuba 2026: Why Havana Suddenly Matters Again
While much Indian attention remains focused on U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s India visit from 23–26 May...
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...
The Gulf, Hormuz & the Oil Game — What It Means for Bharat
Some time ago, in my earlier analysis in The Goa Chronicle, I had written about the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, describing...
The Economics of War: How Conflict Reshapes Power, Markets, and the Global Defence Industry
War has always been more than the clash of armies. Behind every battlefield lies a vast economic machinery, factories humming with production, supply chains...
Oil, War, and the World’s Nerve Centre: Why the Next Energy Shock Could Reshape Global Power
On any ordinary morning, somewhere in the vast blue expanse between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, a line of giant oil tankers...
Bangladesh After the Faultlines: Can Foreign Policy Hold the Republic Together?
When I wrote in Goa Chronicle about the emerging faultlines within Bangladesh, the argument was not alarmist. It was diagnostic. Bangladesh was not collapsing,...
The Unbroken Delta: Bangladesh, Strategic Signalling and the Question of Fracture
It began with a sentence.When Muhammad Yunus recently referred to the “Seven Sisters” of India in the same breath as Nepal and Bhutan, it...





