Why the BRICS 2026 New Delhi Declaration matters far more than its prose.

(The studio's spy universe keeps casting India and Pakistan as a family divided by a few bad men. The trouble is that the real subcontinent has stopped believing in that story.) A poster from the promotions of the film Alpha headlined by Alia Bhatt and produced by YRF. I went to see Alpha because I am an Alia Bhatt fan, and I admired, again, the fact that Hindi cinema’s most bankable female star keeps pushing the boundaries to the extent that she can. But watching the film was instructive in...

(Is India taking a new kind of sea-based nuclear turn?) India’s evolving nuclear posture is often described in the language of arsenal size, missile range, and doctrinal continuity. That account is not wrong, but it misses the most interesting transformation that might be now underway. The deeper change is that India appears to be moving from a model of hidden deterrence – where nuclear capability existed but was kept ‘recessed’, de-mated, and largely out of operational view – toward a model...