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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 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...
THE AF-PAK-USA Triango
Afghanistan is in a mess. So-called peace talks have collapsed in Doha (a dialogue of the deaf). America and its allies spent more on...
Modi’s Big fat Cabinet
Narendra Modi has just carried out perhaps what is the largest cabinet reshuffle in India’s history. More than a reshuffle, it was a massive...
Modi’s Reshuffle: an RT-PCR test
In the first week of July 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out perhaps what was the largest cabinet reshuffle in India’s history. He...
Will Modi’s 45% Expansion Deliver?
As of July 5, excluding Narendra Modi himself, the second Modi ministry (“Modi 2.0”) comprised 53 ministers, including 21 cabinet ministers, nine ministers of...
Modi Checkmates Underperformers
The idiom “BETTER LATE THAN NEVER” is 635 years old. It has taken Prime Minister Narendra Modi 770 days into his second term (“Modi...





