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Pakistan’s Growing Baloch Problem

The Baloch people must have followed with interest and some level of satis-faction the successful Operation Sindoor launched by India on Pakistani soil. While Balochistan has for long agitated against the Pakistani establishment, over the past some y....

A Nexus of Pakistan’s Hybrid Warfare and Terror Sponsorship

Operation Sindoor marks a pivotal shift in India’s national security doctrine, comprising a strong, carefully calibrated, and lawful response to Pakistan’s State sponsorship of terrorism. Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism not only impeded borde....

Op Sindoor: Some Thoughts on Ground Based Air Defence

Air and air defence warfare played up prominently during Op Sindoor. Stories about hordes of drones being unleashed by the adversary and their downing by our air defence warriors hogged most of the headlines. In this context, this work attempts to fi....

Re-establishing India’s Information Dominance

On a serene spring day in Kashmir’s Pahalgam Valley—April 22, 2025—the world witnessed two converging catastrophes. The first was the physical horror of a terrorist massacre: twenty six unarmed pilgrims, primarily Hindu tourists, were executed ....

The Imperative for Greater Scrutiny of Net FDI

After the release of recent RBI data specifying net FDI of just $353 million, there has been some anxiety about whether anything has gone wrong. [1] The data shows that net foreign direct investment (FDI) into India in 2024-25 was 96% lower than pr....

Israel: A Growing Key Economic Partner for India

Since the establishment of full diplomatic relations in January 1992, the India-Israel bilateral relationship has been predominantly viewed through the prism of defence cooperation, particularly the arms trade. As a result, economic cooperation began....

SMART-FTA: A New Trade Architecture for India’s Future

India’s global trade strategy is at a crossroads. This article presents a fresh, future-ready framework — SMART- FTA (Free Trade Agreement) — that reimagines free trade not as a diplomatic checkbox, but as a dynamic, data-governed system. It....

Assessing Recent India-Pakistan Military Conflict and Options for India

The latest India-Pakistan military conflict has given a reality check to the religiously inclined ideologue Army Chief/Field Marshal of Pakistan, General Syed Asim Munir, that his “hardline” approach and continued use of ‘non-state actors’ to....

A Colonial Legacy: The Unethical Sale of Sacred Relics

On 5th May, 2025, the Ministry of Culture under the Government of India issued a legal notice to Sotheby’s and Mr. Chris Peppé demanding the immediate halt of the auction titled "The Piprahwa Gems of the Historical Buddha, Mauryan Empire, Ashokan ....

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