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The Four Pillars to Strengthen Indian Civilization
July 4 , 2025 Praveen Menon
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Around 1600 BCE, a massive volcano at Thera shook the foundation of a mystical civilization across Crete in mainland Greece. Once the masters of Aegean, the Minoan civilization was swept by the tsunami ...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : ancient India , Indian civilization , Indian culture

Relevant Then: Relevant Now Foreign Policy Perspective of Syama Prasad Mukherjee
July 3 , 2025 Raghvendra Singh, Senior Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 39
Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee passed away on 23rd June 1953. He was only 52 years old then. A minister in undivided Bengal and in Nehru’s first cabinet, Syama Babu was the founder of Bhartiya Jana Sangh, w...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : India , Nehru , Pakistan , Syama Prasad Mukherjee , UNO

Cognitive Warfare and the Idea of Sahaj Intelligence
July 2 , 2025 Devsena Mishra
Commentary Views: 54
In a democracy like Bharat, the relevance of awareness-driven engagement and a first-responder model within the context of national security is only set to grow. These decentralized, agile responses wil...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Cognitive Warfare , Influence Operations , Information Warfare , Intelligence , PsyOps , technology

PCI’s Paper on India-Pak Operations: A Disinformation Case Study
July 1 , 2025 Brig (retd) Rahul Bhonsle
Article Views: 90
In the age of the narrative where strategic defeat can be painted as a military victory, the Paper by the Pakistan China Institute [PCI] titled, “16 Hours that Reshaped South Asia: How Modi's Miscalculation Led to Pakistan's Primacy”, May 24, 2025, [hereinafter referred to as PCI Disinfo Paper] is a new low in disinformation by a research institute.

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : CDS , DG ISPR , Disinfo paper , OP Sindoor , PCI

The Middle East after the Israel- Iran War
June 30 , 2025 Kingshuk Chatterjee
Article Views: 120
The Twelve Day War between Israel and Iran may seem like a short burst of conflict that was contained in its scope, but might prove in the long term to be a fuse that was lit to the regional powder-keg....

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Air defence , axis of resistance , Iran , IRGC , Israel , JCPOA , NPT , nuclear programme , US , Witkoff

Looking Back: From Egypt’s 1967 Operation Lion to Israel’s Operation Rising Lion
June 30 , 2025 Rajesh Singh
Article Views: 115
‘Rising Lion’, the operation codenamed by Israel and launched recently to target critical assets of Iran, especial the latter’s nuclear facilities and its senior military leadership, has a biblical conn...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , David Ben-Gurion , Gamal Abdel Nasser , Mohammad Mosaddegh , Moshe Dayan , Operation Lion , Operation Rising Lion , Shah of Iran , Six-Day War , Yitzhak Rabin

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