In an age of soft power and tech influence, fear of foreign bases misguides strategy. Calm analysis, not panic, must shape India's response in the Indian Ocean Region.
LIC’s delays, denials, and technical traps betray the trust it was built on. This isn’t insurance—it’s institutionalised indifference, cloaked in legacy and patriotism.
Iran’s overt and covert support to militant groups, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis in the area to fight proxy wars against Israel, towards achieving Iran’s aim of annihilating the nation, is also noteworthy.
While the abrogation of Article 370 was projected as a step toward integration and equal opportunity, the post-370 policies in J&K reveal something starkly different.
Ambedkar’s emphasis on education as tool for empowerment and his conversion to Buddhism rejecting caste hierarchies highlight his radical & transformative approach to social change.
As India continues to expand its aviation footprint, it should align institutional structures with global best practices to ensure safety remains guiding principle in the skies above.
After a crushing defeat, Armenia under Pashinyan seeks peace with Türkiye—offering a rare postwar pivot from isolation to diplomacy in an age of rising global militarism.
When silence poses as strategy and dignity is bartered for access, leadership becomes complicity. In Kashmir, the cost of realism without courage is collaboration.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
This is a very insightful and well-argued article. I particularly appreciate the way you have challenged conventional wisdom about the nature of power in the 21st century.
The distinction drawn between the old paradigm of physical military presence and the new realities of economic, cultural, and technological influence is both timely and thought-provoking.
This is a very insightful and well-argued article. I particularly appreciate the way you have challenged conventional wisdom about the nature of power in the 21st century.
The distinction drawn between the old paradigm of physical military presence and the new realities of economic, cultural, and technological influence is both timely and thought-provoking.