Prelude The environment these days (as seen through the electronic media) is so charged up with matters military that ‘A’ stands for Akash (the surface to air missile) and ‘Z’ for ZU23 (air defence gun). More strategically oriented debate....
The long-pending India-Central Asia dialogue could not be convened at a more relevant time than now. India has taken a decisive yet measured strike on cross-border terrorism perpetrated by Pakistan in the form of Op Sindoor. Central Asia has also lo....
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....
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....
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....
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 ....
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....
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....
The terrorist attack on April 22, 2025, in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed the lives of at least 26 civilians, including one Nepalese national, sent shockwaves through South Asia and beyond. The terror attack bore the hallmarks of cross-bo....
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....