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US–China Rivalry and the Thucydides Trap
2,400 years ago, when Thucydides wrote that “it was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this inspired in Sparta, that made war inevitable,” he captured a structural...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
Modi still no. 1 choice of voters
Until India gets “One Nation, One Election” whereby all state assembly and municipal/panchayat and other local body elections are held simultaneously with the general...
Witches’ brew in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s problem is that everyone wants it to be someone else’s problem!In the 1980s, Pakistan was a happy sidekick in the US war against...
UNSC resolution on ‘Taliban’ is a stab to the heart of the people of Afghanistan
You cannot whitewash the truth. The truth is out in the open for all humanity to see. Taliban is the face of Islamic terrorism....
India-Tibet-World The saga of convenient oblivion
In this piece on Tibet, I shall not go into its hoary past, nor recapitulate the events that led to its occupation by Communist...
China US relations, The strange marriage is over
China thinks it owns Russia, and sees it as a warehouse of raw materials for China’s industrial machine, and a fount of state-of-the-art military...
Afghanistan — 48 years of conflict
Almost everyone today knows that the Taliban is an Afghan-born, Pakistan-educated RADICAL ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, but to understand why they came to power in...





