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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...
Joe Biden’s parting gift to Taliban
In April 2021, the Joe Biden administration announced the withdrawal of all U.S. troops, but then requested a funding increase for Afghan security forces...
Narco-Islamic Terrorists ‘Taliban’ to rule Afghanistan
Normalizing the capture of Afghanistan by the Narco-Islamist terrorist Taliban is an abnormality and an anomaly.Taliban is the face of Islamic terrorism and also...
Taliban is the richly funded face of Islamic terrorism
Taliban is a terror organization. It believes and propagates an extreme form of Islamic radicalism completely opposed to human sensibilities.Their idea of Islam is...
When science and ethics are undermined by avarice and ambition
Thailand and Indonesia's decisions to switch to other vaccines "could potentially puncture the image of success, bursting the bubble of effectiveness of Chinese vaccines,...
Witches’ brew in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is in a mess, it has become a witches brew, a fearsome mixture of untamed sex and brutality I begin with a quote...
Modi Stole Our Hearts
It all started with a phone call.The second last day of a wet July month brought much cheer. Someone very senior at the PMO...





