Is Bangladesh Entering Its Most Dangerous Phase, and What Does It Mean for India?
Some events in South Asia arrive as a silent wave but carry the weight of a tsunami tide. The verdict against Sheikh Hasina felt like one of those moments. Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death ...
Post Sindoor, China’s Himalayan Strategy: Multi-dimensional and Extensive Build-up across the Tibetan Plateau
As we see thaw set in at trade and political levels, on the ground around the Doklam area, China continues to build impressive infrastructure with a range of sophisticated weaponry. India is ramping up capacity to ...
Pakistan 27th Constitutional Amendment: The Military’s Return to Dominance
It is often said that while countries have an Army, in Pakistan it is the other way around. The Pakistan Army has a country. With Field Marshal Asim Munir being the present de-facto ruler, the amendment ...
Indo-US Defence Agreement: Strategic or Symbolic
The Agreement On 31 October 2025, India and the United States formalised a landmark ten-year Defence Framework aimed at significantly deepening and expanding military cooperation, marking a new era in bilateral strategic ties and possible thawing ...
Should India Break Its Nuclear Silence?
A Legacy of Restraint India’s nuclear journey has never been about noise. It has been about purpose. In 1974, it conducted its first test, codenamed Smiling Buddha. That explosion signalled more than capability; it was a ...
Navigating Through the Geo-Political and Geo-Economic Quagmire
Vladimir Len in in 1917 during the Russian Revolution had supposedly said “there are decades where nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen”. Given the prevailing pace and turbulence in global geopolitics, that ...
Souls Silenced in Gilgit-Baltistan: Pakistan’s Cold Frontier of Fear
The high altitude mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan conceal a violence that rarely reaches beyond Pakistan’s borders. Beneath the beauty lies a region crushed between military control, economic extraction, and political invisibility. This is Pakistan’s occupied silence, a ...
Gaza Ceasefire: Uncertainty Still Looms Large
The Pulse After a little over two years of war a ceasefire which had eluded all previous attempts and seemed unachievable has been accomplished to end the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. The US secured support ...
The Strongman Era: How will it Go?
Did the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jingpin end with the two underlining the dawn of a new bipolar world order? The phrase dates back to the Cold War when ...
Fed’s October 2025 Policy: A Balancing Act Between Growth and Inflation
The U.S. Federal Reserve reduced its policy rate by 25 basis points on October 29, 2025, with a 10-2 vote, with newly appointed Governor Stephen Miran wanting to go further in cutting rates this week, and ...
Winds of Change – The Indian Cinema
A Global Context: India’s Expanding Cinematic Footprint In the post-pandemic world, few entertainment industries have rebounded as impressively as India’s film sector. Globally, theatrical markets in North America, China, and Europe have either plateaued or witnessed ...
Sanction Storm 2.0: India’s Choices in a Changing Energy Order
The new sanctions on Russia’s oil majors have reopened questions about where global power really lies. Washington’s move to target Rosneft and Lukoil, backed by London and Brussels, is not another routine tightening of screws. President ...
