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India's Flattering Growth Mirage
In Short: India’s impressive 7.8% quarterly GDP growth hides significant underlying structural weaknesses. Driven mainly by government infrastructure spending and luxury consumption among wealthy households, the expansion masks falling real rural wages, stagnant urban incomes, and a shrinking share of broad-based private consumption. Headline figures overstate true economic well-being for most citizens.
A Tale of Two Theatres: India’s Asymmetric Geopolitics in Eurasia and the Middle East
In Short: India’s foreign policy reflects a dual strategy: taking an independent, assertive stance in Eurasia by buying Russian oil and urging an end to the Ukraine war, while maintaining cautious compliance with Western sanctions in West Asia by halting Iranian oil imports. This selective diplomacy risks compromising its global moral authority.
Blaming the Bullion: Why Modi’s Call on Gold Misses the Real Dollar Drain
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a nationwide call urging citizens to curb foreign spending, trim petrol and diesel consumption, and freeze gold purchases for a year, the narrative appeared straight out of an economic textbook.
The monster of convenience: how superpower statecraft built modern jihad
In high geopolitical strategy, convenient alliances often leave behind inconvenient remnants.
Hyper-scale Mirage: India’s Quest for Data Centers Risks Building Digital Infrastructure Without an Economic Engine
When global technology firms arrive with multi-billion-dollar infrastructure proposals, host governments eagerly broadcast visions of employment booms.
India’s Next-Generation Strategic Reach: Agni-VI and the Calculus of Global Deterrence
As strategic posture goes, nothing concentrates the mind quite like an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of traversing twelve thousand kilometres.
The Looming Spectre of the Artificial Intelligence Bubble
Silicon Valley has long operated on the alchemy of turn-of-the-century technological optimism combined with cheap capital.
The Fractured Mirage of Pan-Islamic Solidarity
When Mojtaba Khamenei called on Muslim nations across the Gulf and broader region to form a unified front against external adversaries, the rhetoric carried a familiar ring.
The 99.97% Haircut? How The Scissors Worked In The Subhash Chandra Case
A recent ruling by India's National Company Law Tribunal regarding Subhash Chandra, the founder of Essel Group, offers an instructive lesson in modern financial engineering.
OUT OF SYLLABUS: INDIA’S YOUTH UNREST UNMASKS A FRAGILE DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
India has, recently, seen a sudden wave of protests.
Guilty Until Proven Registered: India’s Electoral Roll Audit Turns the Burden of Proof on the Citizen
In a functioning democracy, the state bears the onus of maintaining an accurate list of its electorate.
Fractured Peaks: The Structural and Policy Failures Behind the Himalayan Crisis
Disasters in the Himalayas follow a routine that is as predictable as it is devastating.
Redefining Pedagogy in the artificial intelligence Age: Why Information Retrieval is No Longer Education
For decades, formal schooling operated on a simple proposition: knowledge was scarce, and institutions served as the primary vaults for its distribution.
India’s Biofuel Gamble: How E20 Ethanol Policy Threatens Food Security
On paper, the arithmetic of India's aggressive biofuel mandate appeared unassailable.
The Heartland Shift: How Uttar Pradesh turns tricky for BJP
For over a decade, Uttar Pradesh has served as the unshakeable bedrock of Narendra Modi’s political dominance.
The Venezuelan Heist: The Naked Realism of American Resource Extraction
To the long list of justifications offered for American intervention abroad-spreading democracy, disarming tyrants, stemming the flow of illicit narcotics, one must now add an older, simpler motive: raw acquisition.
The Disenfranchised Citizen: How a rushed electoral roll revision threatens universal suffrage
## A rushed electoral roll revision in India threatens to undermine universal suffrage and turn democratic rights into an administrative ordeal FOR decades, the Indian state has approached its citizens at election time as a petitioner.
The Resilience of the Incumbent: Gen Z Protest Blow Fractures BJP Margin
Three years out from a general election, opinion polling is rarely a precise map of the ultimate destination.
The Strategic Gamble of Kirana Hills
In the delicate calculus of South Asian nuclear deterrence, geography is often as consequential as warhead yield.
The Resource Parable: Why Equal Inputs Fail to Yield Equal Growth
When standard conditions produce uneven outcomes, analysts naturally tend to scrutinise inputs.