Reflections on Army Day 2026: Valour, Reforms, Reciprocity
As the nation celebrates Indian Army Day 2026, it is equally a time to salute the soldiers and reflect on their aspirations too. A nation can aspire to justice, growth, and democratic ...
SHANTI Act, 2025: Rewriting the Rules of India’s Nuclear Energy Future
India’s energy transition has entered a phase where scale, reliability, and decarbonisation must advance together. Rapid growth in electricity demand, increasingly binding climate commitments, and the limits of variable renewables have sharpened ...
Public-Private Partnership in Strategic Infrastructure Development
Introduction In contemporary security discourse, infrastructure is no longer viewed merely as an enabler of economic growth. Increasingly, it is recognised as a critical instrument of national power, shaping military capability, deterrence ...
Pushing a Tourism Narrative Around the Sights and Sounds and so Much Else (and Tastes) of Delhi
It’s No Easy Task, but begin we must, perhaps start small, but confidently, as Delhi is the Window to Modern day India. It must claim its rightful place as one of the ...
A Year-End Conversation: Issues we must Tackle in 2026
At this exclusive conversation, we bring keen and most perceptive minds to debate on some of the most obvious and pressing subjects that India will be debating in the new year. Joining ...
Key Economic and Social Priorities for Achieving India’s “Viksit” Aspirations
The Purposes of Development Indian Prime Minister Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared some time back that Bharat (the Hindi name for India) would be a “viksit” (developed) country ...
The 6E Crisis: A Wake-Up call for the Air Transport Sector
What now for Indigo and for Indian aviation? A reprieve has been granted with a 10% cut in flights schedule, till February, 2026. Meaning, the airline would have to fall in line, ...
India’s Territorial Disputes, Clashes and Settlements
In the 1947 partition of the British India, humanity collapsed and the politics of religion succeeded in drawing the border lines - mostly with blood. Compassion was buried under political stages when ...
Meditation in the Smog: Can Indian Cities save their Soul?
On December 21st, the world observed the second United Nations-designated World Meditation Day. For India, the primary co-sponsor of this resolution, the day is more than a spiritual milestone; it is a ...
The Partition of Bangladesh: A Befitting Testimony to the Valour of the Indian Forces, along with Political Resolve
A conversation on the release of the book “Bangladesh: Humiliation, Carnage, Liberation, Chaos”, authored by Iqbal Malhotra and Subroto Chattopapadhay, published by Ink Publishers. What started with partitioning of the subcontinent in ...
Cleansing Coloniality to End Macaulay’s Long Reach
Unencumbered by having to defend Britain, the great American historian Will Durant asked his Western readers in 1931 to remember that, India was the mother-land of our race, and Sanskrit the mother ...
Death of Nuance: Finding the Middle Path in a Binary World
Let’s be honest: we’ve become addicted to the binary. Our brains love a good toggle switch—on or off, friend or foe, hero or villain. It’s clean. It’s easy. And in the age ...
