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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, sanctions, debt recovery, market access, and control over the world's largest...
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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...
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The ‘WhatsAppisation’ of Corporate India
AI-driven messaging is reshaping customer engagement — but at what strategic cost?The next big digital transformation may...
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Beijing at the Centre of the New Great Game Trump, Putin, Xi — and the Emerging Architecture of Global Power
Within the span of one extraordinary diplomatic week in May 2026, Beijing first hosted US President Donald Trump...
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From Bharat’s Villages to UAE’s Desert Sands: The Extraordinary Journey of Indian Cow Dung in a World Facing War, Blockades, and Food Insecurity
There was a time when the smell of freshly plastered cow-dung floors was inseparable from life in Bharat’s...
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...
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...





