India’s Tech Imperative: Scaling R&D for a Strategic Future
Balaji Subramanian India must now have institutions like DARPA lead our national strategic tech in quantum secure communication, AI for…
Fast-Tracking India’s Defence: Indigenous Procurement Powers Strategic Independence
Piyush Anand The emergency defence purchase of ₹2,000 crore is one of the biggest fast-track procurement projects undertaken by the…
India’s AI Moment: Aligning Ambition with Strategy and Governance
Divyanka Tandon AI is too important to be left to bureaucrats and tech boards—it must be democratised—strategically, socially, and politically.
The Indus Waters Treaty: Legacy, Challenges, and the Role of Arbitration
Megna Devkar The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a post-independence treaty signed and implemented in 1960 by India and Pakistan under…
INS Tamal: Unveiling India’s Next-Generation Stealth Frigate and Its Path to Aatmanirbhar Bharat
Tamal, the final foreign-built frigate to join the Indian Navy, embarks on history, not as a conclusion, but…
India’s Strategic Autonomy: Balancing Act in a Fragmented Multipolar World
Archita Gaur India is emerging as a balancer in a multipolar, fragmented world, where it does not align fully with…
Rewiring the Ballot for a New India in the Age of Digital Democracy
Alok Virendra Tiwari The Digital India initiative, a transformative mission capable of making government services electronically available under the enhancement of…
Israel-Iran Conflict: Lessons, Implications, and India’s Strategic Roadmap
Rajeev KS In today’s world, real power lies not just in having stockpiles of missiles or money, but in the…
From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment: India’s Strategic Recalibration in the Indo-Pacific
India wants to protect its interests by using a flexible, multi-directional foreign policy that takes into account the…
India’s Rare Earth Elements (REEs) Conundrum: The Looming Resource Crisis and the Road Ahead
Abhinav Sharma Despite possessing the world’s third-largest reserves of rare earth elements (REEs), India is now facing a severe supply…