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Algorithmic warfare: the real 'cockroach' in the room
In a war-torn world, economic uncertainity and desperation is growing. Alongwith it, algorithmic warfare which can trigger mass civilian unrest. Is India prepared? (A social media image from the timeline of the Cockroach Janata Party.) Let us be honest about what we are watching. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has generated more column inches in the past week than most issues that will actually determine India's future. Twenty million Instagram followers in five days. Oppos
India’s strategic masterstroke: mastering the Malacca chokepoint
A word that often comes up in Chinese strategic writings whenever Chinese experts talk about their greatest vulnerability at sea: Malacca (马六甲). For China, the Strait of Malacca is a strategic chokepoint that its rivals will one day seek to exploit to strangulate the Chinese economy. This is what Chinese strategists refer to as the Malacca dilemma (马六甲困境). It has quietly driven billions of dollars in Chinese investments in the Indian Ocean all the way from Gwadar to Hambantot
America's military assertiveness and its four structural limits
Under President Donald Trump, the US is determined to reverse the growing global opinion about its decline. In the span of nine weeks between January and February 2026, the United States seized a foreign head of state from his own capital, escalated a bombing campaign against one of the world's most militarized states, and watched its president declare America was "reasserting power." The word choice was telling. You do not reassert what you securely possess. The flurry of mi
Russia has the last laugh: Europe’s new arc of crisis
From Cold War jihad pipelines to Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood designations—and the Gulf split that now runs through London Europe’s vulnerability to radical Islamism is no longer primarily a question of bombs, camps, or foreign battlefields. It is a question of social cohesion, legal intimidation, foreign patronage, and institutional capture—a slow-burn crisis inside liberal societies that adversaries can exploit without firing a shot. It’s literally fuelling the spectacular ri
The 27th Constitutional Amendment – institutionalising military supremacy in Pakistan?
Pakistan's 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill, passed on November 8, 2025, marks a decisive transformation in the country's power structure, formally entrenching the military's dominance within the constitutional framework. File photo of Field Marshal Asim Munir. The amendment establishes the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), unifying command over the Army, Navy, and Air Force, while abolishing the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Though presented as a measure to enhan
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan Force – another self-inflicted wound
Pakistan appears to be in the process of creating another Frankensteinian monster for itself. Elements within the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) , long a protégé of the military establishment and mobilized from time to time to embarrass or pressure the political leadership, appear to have gone rogue — raising an armed formation, the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan Force (TLPF) . File photo. In the wake of the brutal repression of the TLP’s ‘Labbaik Ya Aqsa Million March’ protes
Will anti-Indianism spread across the Anglosphere?
Introduction Since the 2024 U.S. elections, amid global economic headwinds—rising inflation, housing shortages, and labour-market disruption— there has been an increasing wave of anti-Indian sentiment , sometimes called anti-Indianism, Hinduphobia, or Indophobia. This describes prejudice, hostility, or discrimination directed at people of Indian origin, including both immigrants and long-established diaspora communities. (AI-generated photo .) What makes this trend significan
Nepal – from the streets to the ballot
On October 29, 2025, Nepal’s Supreme Court Constitutional Bench declined to issue an interim order against the formation of the government led by Prime Minister Sushila Karki and the dissolution of the House of Representatives, paving the way for elections scheduled on March 5, 2026. This followed the September 12, 2025, dissolution of Parliament and the appointment of an interim administration amid widespread unrest, including student-led Gen Z protests that highlighted mas
Bipin Joshi and the Missing Global Hindu Voice
In Bipin Joshi’s captivity, we glimpse the quiet absence of a global Hindu voice. After two years in Hamas captivity, Bipin Joshi is finally home, and his ātmā has attained sadgati . His mortal remains were repatriated from Israel last week. At Ben Gurion Airport, the Israeli foreign ministry held a farewell ceremony attended by locals and foreign citizens; at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal’s interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki draped the national f
General Asim Munir’s delusion of power: A puppet democracy and a nation in decline
Pakistan’s current political theatre is not a democracy, it is a carefully choreographed act of submission, with General Asim Munir pulling the strings and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif playing the compliant marionette. After decades of repeated coups and direct military interventions, Pakistan’s latest army chief appears to have realised that outright takeovers no longer work. In the post-Cold War, post-FATF, IMF-dependent world, staging a coup is not just unfashionable, it’
Understanding Nippon Kaigi
Why Japan's Patriotic Turn is Critical for India and the world. Japan's new (first woman) prime minister Sanae Takaichi has close ties with Nippon Kaigi. As India and Japan forge one of the 21st century's defining relationships—a "Special Strategic and Global Partnership" that forms a cornerstone of the Quad and the vision for a free Indo-Pacific—it is imperative for Indian policymakers and analysts to look beyond the surface of Japanese politics. To truly understand the str
Changing India’s neighbourhood gaze using two Ts
In this essay I use two examples from two extremities - Tamil Nadu and Tripura - to try and examine how India can significantly enhance its regional influence and unlock substantial economic possibilities by strategically leveraging the unique strengths and geographical advantages of its federal states.
The 're-hyphenation' myth
While arch-adversaries in a military conflict, the massive gap in economic size, geopolitical heft, military budget ensures that India...
Understanding the India-Pakistan War through Peace Theory
India and Pakistan have reached a ceasefire understanding and yet the shadows of the conflict still loom large. The situation of peace between India and Pakistan rests on very unstable grounds, thereby creating conditions for a fragile or a ‘negative peace’. A negative peace exists when there is a cessation of hostile activities on both ends and yet the underlying issues of conflict still persist.
Aakash, the Made in India surface-to-air missile - the star of Operation Sindoor
Aakash surface-to-air missile (SAM) system has emerged as a major success story of indigenous defence manufacturing in India.
India and Pakistan: The Elusive Quest for Conventional Deterrence Below the Nuclear Threshold
Why India and Pakistan have failed to find adequate deterrence under the nuclear threshold, and how this causes incessant strife between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours.
Pakistan's new hope - critical minerals and, again, America
Pakistan has clutched at a new lifeline - after Trump's tariffs, America might once again be interested in the minerals of Balochistan.
Navigating strategic partnerships: India's choice between the Quad and RIC
India stands at a critical juncture in its foreign policy, where it must decide whether to deepen its involvement in the Quadrilateral...
Modi’s Middle East Mantra
Since taking office in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embarked on a proactive foreign policy, with a significant focus on enhancing
China's great leap forward
The Great Leap Forward was an attempt by the chairman of the CCP, Mao Zedong, to maintain his ideological and political dominance in the...
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