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The Church and Claude
(The Vatican is taking a lead in addressing one of the most critical issues of our time. This is not just a theological act, it is also a geopolitical move.) Pope Leo XIV signing the Magnifica Humanitas in May 2026 where he addresses the challenge of AI. Photo source: Catholic World Report.) The photograph circulated fast. On one side of a lectern in the Vatican’s Synod Hall, Pope Leo XIV in white cassock. On the other, Christopher Olah — thirty-three years old, atheist, co-
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
Why the Nordics need India
Behind the prosperity of the Nordic nations lie deep anxiety of collapsing demographics and the fear of China. Three-wheeler autorickshaws in India with the branding of Swedish furniture major IKEA. (Source: IKEA India website.) On May 19–20, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Oslo for the third India-Nordic Summit — the first visit by an Indian head of government to Norway in over forty years. The two countries elevated their bilateral relationship to a "Green Str
India and Africa: A partnership of equals for a new global era
When leaders from across Africa gather in New Delhi later this month for the Fourth India-Africa Forum Summit, they will not simply be attending another diplomatic conference. They will be participating in what could become one of the most consequential South-South engagements of the decade. Scheduled for May 28–31, 2026, the summit marks the revival of India’s flagship engagement with Africa after an eleven-year gap. Organized in partnership with the African Union, the forum
The Second Bengal Renaissance
Or how to make Kolkata (Calcutta) the centre of Asia again. An AI-modified version of a painting by Sheikh Muhammad Amir; India; ca. 1840; Opaque watercolor on burnished paper. Soon after independence in 1965, Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew used Calcutta (Kolkata) as a benchmark, aiming for Singapore to eventually exceed the standard of the bustling, established city. While he admired its historic role, his later, often-quoted sentiment was that he intended
Mediator or Something Else?
In this article, Prof. (Dr.) Manoj Panigrahi analyzes Pakistan’s self-styled mediation in the United States–Iran conflict, highlighting key inconsistencies and geopolitical stakes. US Vice President JD Vance arrived in Islamabad for talks with Iranian officials on April 11, 2026 (in picture: JD Vance with Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir, Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and
A new start to Nepal politics: How must India progress?
A new shah in Nepal. (Photo from Balendra 'Balen' Shah's official profile.) A month ago, snap elections in Nepal were held with much hope and curiosity. The results were expected yet surprising. The Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) formed in 2022 won a complete majority, something that Nepal had not seen since the Nepali Congress’s win in 1999. Not only that. Balendra Shah, the rapper turned mayor turned prime minister won nearly 70,000 votes, highest ever in Nepali history, i
How China rose, why the US won’t let India rise like that, and what India should do
A new age of competition demands new rules.(AI generated image.) US Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau’s recent statement at the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi —“We won’t repeat the China mistake with India”—signals that Washington views its past openness to China as a strategic error, one it intends to avoid with New Delhi by imposing stricter reciprocity, technology safeguards, and market protections in any deepening partnership. This shifts the terms under which India can leve
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
US, Russia, and the great game of nuclear rhetoric
A month after Russia and the US declared their intentions of resuming nuclear testing, the global nuclear order and security landscape remains shrouded in uncertainty. This article analyses the ambiguity behind the threats and allegations of nuclear testing, the history of nuclear threat mongering between Russia and the United States, as well as the extent to which these developments are mere rhetoric or actual strategic signals. It has been a month since the threat of renew
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
Bangladesh – HeI: Resurgent Islamism
On October 29, 2025, Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) Khagrachari District branch formed a human chain to protest and demand a ban on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), claiming that it was an extremist Hindutva organisation. On October 24, 2025, HeI staged a protest rally in Chittagong District, demanding a ban on ISKCON, describing it as an extremist Hindutva organisation and an Indian agent. On October 18, 2025, Local Government, Rural Development and Coope
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
Dhamma and the Dragon
The Chinese have spent years trying to diminish him, but reverence for the 14th Dalai Lama has grown exponentially within China.
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