The BRICS Summit and the Weight on India’s Shoulders
India assumed the rotating chairmanship of BRICS on January 1, 2026, marking its fourth turn at the helm since the grouping's first summit in 2009. The Eighteenth BRICS Summit will convene in New Delhi on September ...
New Great Game Of Connectivity
How China, Russia and India are redrawing Eurasia—not with borders, but with corridors When Moscow Looked South Sometimes a railway proposal tells us more about geopolitics than a summit meeting does. On 9 August 2026, Russia ...
Makah Agreement: The Strategic Geometry Raises Concerns for India
Introduction On 07 August. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Makah Defence pact during the ‘Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit for Joint Defence’. The signing ...
Who is Winning the West Asia War?
Analysing a War that has Affected the Whole World: The Choices It Leaves for India Fourteen months after the first bombs fell on Iran's nuclear sites in June 2025, the West Asia war has settled into ...
Pakistan is Tearing Apart at the Edges
Introduction On 02 August fourteen people, including police officials, were killed and twenty-two others injured in a suicide attack on Swat’s Kabal Police Station in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after a rally calling for lasting peace in ...
Is Pakistan Imploding ?
India’s western neighbour - the terror driven, ever turbulent Pakistan appears to be, once again in the throes of grave political instability spreading across all its provinces and currently very seriously, in the Pak occupied Jammu ...
Indian Economy: Resilience and the Road Ahead
“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history ...
Pakistan’s First Commander of the National Strategic Command
Introduction On 24 July 2026, Pakistan took another step towards completing the restructuring of its higher military command (initiated under last year’s 27th Constitutional Amendment), with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif promoting Lieutenant General Syed Aamer Raza ...
How Fiber-Optic Drones are Defining Conflict
Introduction A battlefield innovation, which first emerged in 2024, is spreading defeating electronic jamming and taking the adversary by surprise. Fiber-optic drones are transforming warfare, leaving militaries racing to develop effective countermeasures. In fact, Russian forces ...
Why Didn’t Nelson Mandela Hate?
The Long Walk Beyond Revenge Some lives become larger than history because they answer questions that every generation continues to ask. Nelson Mandela's life poses perhaps the most difficult question of all: How does a man ...
Iran: The Impossibility of Defeat Rather Than Pursuit of Victory
Introduction On 01 March, Abbas Araghchi the Iranian Foreign Minister described Iran's defence strategy in a post on X: “We've had two decades to study defeats of the US military to our immediate east and west ...
NATO’s Defining Decade: Strength Without Certainty, and the Lessons for India
The 36th NATO summit, which concluded in Ankara this week, will be remembered less for its declarations than for the contradiction it exposed. Leaders arrived pledging accelerated progress towards spending five per cent of GDP on ...
