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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 ongoing West Asia crisis in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Asim Munir’s Nuclear Threat in Tampa: “We Will Take Half the World Down With Us”
At a black-tie dinner in Tampa, Florida, organised to mark the retirement of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander, Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal...
Hamas Must Fall for Palestine to Rise? That’s a Fantasy—Because Hamas Is Palestine Indoctrinated
There’s a phrase that keeps doing the rounds on international panels, op-eds, and the Twitter feeds of armchair diplomats—'Hamas must fall for Palestine to...
INS Varsha: India’s Secretive Fortress for Nuclear Deterrence
About 50 kilometers south of Visakhapatnam, near the coastal village of Rambilli in Andhra Pradesh, something significant is taking shape. This is INS Varsha,...
Where the Sun Meets the Soul: The Shared Spirit of Donyi Polo and Sanatan Dharma
This article would have remained unwritten had it not been for a quiet conversation with Rinku, a dear friend I’ve known since 1987. A...
Echoes Across Mountains and Millennia: What the Druze and Sanatan Dharma Share
The Journey of the Soul: Taqammus and PunarjanmaIn a remote Druze household in Suwayda, a grandmother once whispered to her grandson that he was...
The Mountain Does Not Kneel: The Druze of Suwayda in Post-Assad Syria
At dawn, as the sky blushes above the black basalt of Jabal al-Druze, an old shepherd kneels beside a spring near Salkhad, whispering verses...





