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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 and then Russian President Vladimir Putin. The sequencing was deliberate.Trump visited...
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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...
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When Political Power meets Capital Markets
Recent disclosures linked to US President Donald Trump's personal securities (stock) trading activity have triggered a major global...
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When the CIA Began Watching Indian Air Power Closely – And How Operation Sindoor Validated Those Fears
There are moments in history when a nation’s military evolution becomes impossible for the world to ignore. For...
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Operation Sindoor: India’s “New Normal”
Operation Sindoor marked a turning point in how India responds to cross‑border terrorism. For decades, India absorbed attacks,...
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...





