The Enemy Within
Three internal taxes that could derail India's growth trajectory There are moments in the life of a nation when history seems to move in its favour. India appears to be living through ...
Road to Accountability
From Pothole Detection to Digital Road Governance When Pothole Became an Evidence A Bengaluru engineer got tired of potholes damaging his car. Instead of merely cursing them, he decided to track them ...
Bajirao: The General Who Weaponised Speed
How a young Peshwa transformed mobility, manoeuvre and audacity into an art of war The General Who Never Lost On 18 August 1700, in the Deccan, a child was born who would grow ...
Architecture of Atal Confidence
The Silence after Atal Eight years after Atal Bihari Vajpayee left us, there is something unusual about remembering him. His demise brought end to the life of one of independent India's most ...
Battlefield Transparency Concerns
Introduction Every major war reshapes how future wars are fought and expose weaknesses that peacetime exercises fail to reveal, challenge long-held concepts embedded in military doctrine, and force organisations to adapt. Further, ...
The War of Waiting
The Human Cost of War Beyond the Battlefield A warship can carry thousands of men and women across oceans, sustain itself for months and remain ready to fight. What it cannot replenish ...
The Munde Phenomenon
From Individual Integrity to Institutional Excellence When One Officer Becomes a Phenomenon By now, Tukaram Munde needs little introduction. His work in the Food and Drugs administration, his relentless field orientation, inspections, ...
India We Inherited, India We Leave Behind
My mother was born in 1944. She was three years old when India became free. She could not possibly have understood what was happening on that August morning in 1947, when the ...
Guarding India’s Digital and Financial Borders
For most of India's independent history, the idea of a national border conjured a fixed image. A line on a map, a fence, a river, or a ridgeline held by soldiers. That ...
Criticism Is Cheap, Contribution Is Rare
Across cultures and institutions, management practice may differ, but one principle commands wide agreement: praise should be generous, while criticism should be measured, fair and responsible. Praise costs little, yet it can ...
From Colonel to Carrot King
He Changed the Battlefield, Not the Soldier Within I have known Colonel Subhash Deswal long before the world discovered the “Carrot King”. We were coursemates at the National Defence Academy, training together ...
Youth is Now
The Future Is Already Here Every generation has been told the same thing: the youth are the future. It sounds inspiring. It appears on banners, in speeches and at conferences. But perhaps ...
