India’s Agni‑5 Bunker Buster: Strategic Shift & Regional Impact
By equipping the Agni-5 with a massive conventional warhead, India introduces a strategic asymmetry that will force Pakistan to respond through doctrinal, technological, and defensive adaptations.
Qingdao 2025: The SCO Summit That Could Redefine Asia
Qingdao 2025 brings India and Pakistan’s defense chiefs face-to-face after May’s clashes, a pivotal SCO moment that could shift the balance from tension to dialogue, or deepen divides in an evolving multipolar order.
Tourism in Peril: The Untold Risk of Being a Woman in India
India, often celebrated as a vibrant and colorful tourism hub, is facing a crisis that tarnishes its global image, a crisis that disproportionately affects women, particularly foreign travelers. In recent months alone, a disturbing wave of sexual violence has unfolded, revealing not just the brutality of individual crimes but a deeper institutional failure. In Udaipur, […]
Indus Waters Treaty: A Line India Should Not Cross
India’s recent announcement to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), followed by inflammatory remarks from senior ministers including Amit Shah’s conceited statement about never restoring the treaty and Indian Defense Min Rajnat Singh affirming that Operation Sindoor Not Over, marks a dangerous departure from both diplomatic prudence and legal responsibility. For over six decades, the […]
Bishnoi Gang Faces Canadian Scrutiny Over Security Threats
Two Canadian government officials, British Columbia Premier David Eby and Member of Parliament Jenny Kwan have independently written to Prime Minister Mark Carney with a direct request: To designate the India-linked Lawrence Bishnoi gang as a terrorist organization. This push isn’t happening in a vacuum. It follows months of growing concern over transnational repression, rising […]
WSJ’s Pakistan-Iran Nuclear Analogy: A Case of Strategic Amnesia
In an era defined by nuclear anxieties, great power recalibrations, and regional arms races, the global discourse on nonproliferation must be rooted in nuance, history, and strategic logic. It is therefore deeply concerning when a publication of record like The Wall Street Journal allows an ahistorical and sensationalist narrative to shape its opinion pages. Sadanand […]
From Role-Model to Role-Reversal: Modi’s Foreign Policy Faces Uncomfortable Questions Amid Trump-Munir Meeting
As Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir met former U.S. President Donald Trump at the height of the Iran-Israel crisis, a quiet but telling shift is unfolding in South Asia’s geopolitical theatre. What was once India’s boastful perch as the West’s “strategic darling” is being questioned even within its own domestic circles. In May, a […]
Axis of Alignment: India-Israel Ties in the Shadow of Iran’s Isolation
India’s muted response to Israel’s preemptive military action against Iran in June 2025, and its recent decision to abstain from endorsing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) joint statement condemning Israeli airstrikes on Iran has raised questions about its evolving strategic posture. Despite having long-standing economic, energy, and cultural ties with Tehran—and having chaired the SCO […]
Shifting Western Immigration Policy and the New South Asian Migrant Reality
The recent public statement by the U.S. Embassy in India addressing undocumented Indian nationals in the United States should not only be understood as an isolated gesture but also a calculated signal coming from the west for a very long time now. With over 725,000 undocumented Indians currently residing in the U.S. as per Pew […]
Military, Mandir, and Messaging: Reassessing Civil-Military Secularism in India
The recent public appearances of Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi at prominent Hindu religious sites—most notably the Kedarnath Temple and Ram Bhadrāchārya’s ashram—while in uniform, have triggered an important debate about the role of faith within military institutions in democratic states. These developments, while not unprecedented, hold particular significance in the context of India’s […]