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China’s vanishing generals: Inside the PLA’s crisis of command

Where are the generals? And more importantly, if China wants to fight battles — in Taiwan or elsewhere — can revolving generals, who have a constant sword hanging over their heads, lead their troops?

Trump treads dangerously as he walks back on Maga isolationist commitments

The pursuit of great power status remains incompatible with true isolationism, and managing this contradiction will shape the trajectory of American foreign policy and domestic politics in the years ahead

India’s pragmatic balancing: Navigating US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil

A phased, compliance-driven reduction of Russian crude—paired with accelerated diversification into Middle Eastern and Atlantic Basin grades—minimises legal and financial risk while positioning India to convert progress into tariff relief and a trade deal with the United States

Two men, two museums, one passion: Preserving heritage through private collections

Two Indian museums showcase the private collections of remarkable individuals—one a Maratha scholar from Pune, the other a wealthy Malayali businessman from Kerala. Their collections, amassed over years of exploration, reflect distinct worldviews

No longer a geopolitical blind spot: Rising significance of Western Indian Ocean

The Western Indian Ocean is where security, trade, and diplomacy intersect. India’s sustained engagement, naval exercises, and partnerships with African littoral states demonstrate a forward-looking maritime strategy

Trump’s top-down Gaza peace plan has all ingredients for disaster

The proposed Gaza transitional government, to be headed by the former war-mongering British PM Tony Blair, doesn’t represent Palestinians

How Trump-Xi Apec meeting is final chance to prevent a renewed trade war

The Apec Gyeongju Summit offers a platform for direct, face-to-face dialogue between the two leaders, enabling them to move past lower-level disputes and engage in personal diplomacy

India needs a whole-of-nation approach to reduce import dependency on China

A multi-sector analysis of India’s import dependency highlights reliance on China in several critical sectors, including manufacturing, lithium, APIs, and electronics. While India has notable success stories, it requires a focused strategy on import substitution to achieve self-reliant growth

Pakistan issues airspace curbs as India prepares for Trishul tri-services drill near Sir Creek

Pakistan has restricted several air traffic routes over its central and southern regions just days before India’s tri-services exercise, Trishul, begins near the border. The Notam, issued for October 28–29, comes as India prepares a large-scale Army, Navy, and Air Force drill near Sir Creek from October 30 to November 10.

Peace in Gaza requires harmonising Israel’s existence with Palestinian demands

The endgame of the Gaza Peace Plan will ultimately hinge on whether it can reconcile Israel’s existential security concerns with Palestinian demands

How Francesca Orsini’s deportation is no loss to India or Hindi

The idea that Indians require a European to ‘teach’ them Hindi echoes colonial-era paternalism, ignorant of the vibrant domestic literary scene

Here’s why there is no correlation between India’s move to cut Russian oil imports and impending US trade deal

PM Modi is taking a long view of the relationship, which is reflected in India’s calmness and restraint despite relentless provocation from the other side

How Yunus’s regime has driven Bangladeshi Army towards internal rift and radicalisation

Under Muhammad Yunus’s weak and misguided interim rule, the once-disciplined Bangladesh Army now stands divided, torn between secular patriots, political opportunists, and Islamist sympathisers

India isn’t heading for revolution, it’s redefining democracy

India’s transformation is noisy, complex, and self-driven, but it is not anarchic. The ‘revolution’ underway is one of empowerment: digital inclusion, education, start-up mobility, and global ambition

The mouse, the cat and the hunter: Mahabharata’s geostrategic lessons for today’s Bharat

Bhishma’s counsel to Yudhishthira remains timeless: There are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies; only eternal interests endure

Small state, deft diplomacy: How Qatar has raised its ‘smart power’

The ability to talk to both sides is Doha’s rarest currency. If any Arab state can help reduce the reflexive hostility between Tehran and the Arab world, it is Qatar

West still clings to intellectual colonialism while Indians face scholastic apartheid

It is impossible to ignore that Western scholars—overwhelmingly White—have exercised an unrestrained entitlement to interpret, categorise, and often diminish Indian culture, religion, and society with little pushback from Indian institutions themselves

Bangladesh on the brink: How the Yunus regime’s Islamist purge threatens the military

Unless Bangladesh’s democratic and security institutions are defended, the world may soon confront a new Islamist axis anchored in Dhaka, destabilising the entire Indo-Pacific theatre.

China’s influence operations and coercive diplomacy: India’s response offers a blueprint for democracies

China’s influence operations and coercive diplomacy, as evidenced by actions in the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, the Philippines and India, represent a systemic challenge to the international order

How Trump’s sanctions and tariffs have redrawn the world map—and put Eurasia at the centre

The global oil market is no longer just about barrels and prices; it is about currencies, alliances and power.

False victories, real losses: How Munir’s delusions risk Pakistan's future

In these past three and a half decades, Pakistan has suffered terribly economically; its society has become increasingly imbued with extremist Islamic theologies, and its polity has remained unstable. The only institution that has prospered has been the Pakistan Army.

‘Rising Dragon’: Chinese art of arrogance and avarice in Tibet

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