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SubscriberWrites: India–US Trade Tensions Clouds Modi’s Solar Energy and AI Ambitions

India’s position in the solar sector highlights its competitive strengths and vulnerability to policy changes. The United States remains an important market for India.

SubscriberWrites: Legalising Opium Cultivation: A Policy Debate Between Control, Economy, and Social Reality

The argument that “if the government truly wants to act, it should legalise opium cultivation” reflects frustration with current policies that have failed to curb narcotics abuse while also ignoring potential economic benefits.

SubscriberWrites: From Shiva to Science: India’s Uneasy Relationship with Cannabis

India once regulated cannabis pragmatically. The NDPS era replaced that with prohibition—just as science and global policy are beginning to shift.

SubscriberWrites : If India Fails Its Primary Schools, It Fails Its Future

Primary education reform is non-negotiable — it will decide whether India leads globally or falls behind.

SubscriberWrites: The Well We Forgot

Rethinking water, community and care in Rajasthan’s villages

SubscriberWrites: What ails Punjab’s NRI Sabha? Not private status, but power without authority

Punjab has created a body that looks like the state, is controlled like the state, but does not function with the power of the state.

SubscriberWrites: From Śruti to Smṛti: The Continuum of Learning in Ancient India

The past, in India, does not lie behind us, it flows alongside. And we are, whether we realise it or not, part of that unbroken current.

SubscriberWrites: US boots on ground

So, after more than a month of the war, we are no closer to the end. The report card so far? Well, one can look at it in several ways.

SubscriberWrites: Iran’s Dangerous Threshold: Why West Asia Approaches a Nuclear Tipping Point

Ground war risks, nuclear brinkmanship and opportunistic diplomacy could reshape the strategic order in West Asia

SubscriberWrites: Black Ops in Southeast Asia: India Tracks Ukrainian Footprints in Myanmar’s War

An analysis of open-source materials and data suggests that some of the detainees may be connected to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and military intelligence (HUR).

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The math behind India’s elections—Why proximity matters

It is one of the most consistent findings in electoral politics: voters are more likely to support candidates who come from their local area.

US ends oil waivers but Russian crude flows to India ‘likely to remain steady’ amid Hormuz disruption

India will need to recalibrate crude sourcing strategy as US ends waivers for Russian & Iranian oil, energy experts say. But Russian crude will likely remain central to energy basket.

Why Siliguri Corridor is strategically important for India & how it is being secured | Cut The Clutter

This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.