America’s 100% tariff threat: India’s strategic options and choices
US President Donald Trump has signed the ‘Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 ', approving up to 100 per cent tariffs on countries buying Russian oil and gas, and putting India and ...
Sunita Williams: Woman Who Lived the Orbital
There is something strangely beautiful about the coincidence. In November 2023, Samantha Harvey published Orbital, a slender, lyrical novel about six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. A year later, it won the 2024 ...
India’s Energy Squeeze: Tariffs, Tankers and a Test of Nerve
Two blows to India's energy security landed in the same week, and neither was of India's making. Saudi Aramco has reportedly halted crude supplies to Indian refiners after an attack shut down the kingdom's East-West pipeline, ...
Bangladesh: The Eastern Front Is Moving
The Empty Chair Sometimes, absence speaks more clearly than presence. When the 18th BRICS Summit assembled in New Delhi on 12–13 September 2026, Bangladesh was conspicuous by the absence of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, despite India ...
Mecca Joint Defense Agreement : Capability, Capacity and Constraints
Introduction The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was signed between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan on 07 August 2026 with a far-reaching clause akin to Article V of the NATO Agreement. A trilateral collective-defence framework whose operative ...
Understanding Xi Jingping’s New Era China
Introduction Xi Jinping, declared his rule to be a ‘New Era’ in The Party’s Third Historical Resolution of 2021, which cemented his place in history and declared his leadership ‘the key to the great rejuvenation of ...
Beyond Iran: Is America Redesigning the Islamic Arc?
The War We See—and the War We Do Not Wars are often fought on battlefields for objectives that lie far beyond them. The missiles over Iran, the attacks on ships in the Gulf, the destruction of ...
Larak Island: The Pendulum of Escalation and Negotiations Continue
Introduction US struck two rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island on 30 August, apparently, after observing Iranian military personnel preparing to deploy rockets loaded with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Larak is a small Iranian ...
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 ...
