Fiscal Prudence Essential for a Viksit Bharat Realization
A Perspective on the Union Budget The Union Budget 2026-2027 (Union Government’s estimated receipts and expenditure from 1.4.2026 to 31.3.2027) has been presented to the Parliament today by the Union Finance Minister, ...
The Two Last Stands
Rezang La At 18,000 feet in Ladakh’s frozen wilderness, where the air itself feels like an enemy and the wind cuts like a blade, a handful of Indian soldiers carved their names ...
Empowerment of Women in India – Budget Impetus
Women’s economic empowerment in India remains a pressing concern. Traditionally, Indian society accorded women a position of great respect. Yet, over the past few centuries, women in India have often been denied ...
Discipline, Water and Will: The Army Rowing Node’s World Moment
One man’s view of how an Army vision, shaped over four decades, earned global recognition. Introduction: When the World Took Notice Some achievements announce themselves loudly. Others arrive with quiet inevitability, after ...
Beyond The Siliguri Syndrome: North East From Frontier to Fulcrum
For much of independent India’s history, the North Eastern Region (NER) was treated as a distant frontier—strategically sensitive, administratively complex, yet economically peripheral. Geography, Colonial legacies, Partition, Insurgency, and Institutional neglect combined ...
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, ...
