Spotlight
Silicon Valley’s Dual-Use Dilemma: When Frontier AI Meets War and Biosecurity
In Short: Anthropic's threat report reveals sovereign adversaries and militants co-opted its Claude AI model for cyber espionage, missile guidance software, and dual-use biosecurity research. Threat actors bypassed commercial guardrails using automated queries and model distillation, highlighting the urgent need for stricter global regulations on high-capability artificial intelligence.
Cracks in the Greenback: How Beijing Is Silently Building an Alternative Financial System
In Short: Driven by Western sanctions and dollar weaponisation, China is quietly constructing a parallel financial architecture. Through its CIPS payment rail, renminbi-denominated state lending, and Shanghai gold-settlement mechanisms, Beijing offers developing nations an alternative to greenback reliance, accelerating the shift toward a fragmented global financial system.
The Weaponised Dollar and the Mirage of a Alternative Global Reserve Currency
In Short: While geopolitical tensions drive nations toward de-dollarisation to avoid American economic sanctions, the dollar remains irreplaceable. Alternatives like the euro, renminbi, or a BRICS currency face capital controls and institutional fragmentation. A fragmented financial landscape may emerge, but the greenback’s deep liquidity and economic dominance ensure its core primacy.
A BrahMos Belt Encircles China
In Short: India is subtly countering China’s regional influence by exporting BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to Southeast Asian nations with South China Sea maritime disputes, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Following proven battlefield effectiveness against Chinese-made air defenses, this growing defense network creates an informal security belt along Beijing’s vital trade routes.
Privatising Gains, Socialising Loss: Inside India’s Great Corporate Debt Disappearing Act
In Short: Over a decade, Indian banks wrote off ₹18.77 trillion in bad loans, while insolvency resolutions forced creditors into ₹10.4 trillion in haircuts. Combined with ₹8.22 trillion in corporate tax concessions, these massive relief measures failed to spur growth, as manufacturing’s GDP share fell from 17% to 13%.
Silicon Realignment: As AI Investments Soar, Big Tech Quietly Sheds Thousands of Humans
In Short: Big Tech is projected to eliminate 274,000 jobs in 2026, shifting capital from human payroll to artificial intelligence infrastructure. Driven by rising automated efficiency rather than financial distress, companies like Oracle, Uber, and PayPal are cutting headcount globally, forcing displaced workers into lower-paying roles.
The monster of convenience: how superpower statecraft built modern jihad
In high geopolitical strategy, convenient alliances often leave behind inconvenient remnants.
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.
Near Miss at Kirana Hills: Autonomous Warfare Tests South Asia’s Atomic Threshold
IN MODERN escalation management, clarity is often treated as currency.
Left Turn on Main Street: A Democratic Socialist Earthquake Hits American Politics
For decades, identifying as any shade of socialist in American politics was a quick ticket to the electoral margins.
Two Paths Diverged: A Tale of Two Subcontinental Republics
Eight decades after gaining independence from British colonial rule, the fortunes of South Asia's two largest successor states could hardly be more distinct.
The Mecca Accord: Military pact among Sunni states signals the twilight of American security guarantees
When diplomats gathered in Mecca to formalise a defence agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey, the chosen setting was hardly accidental.
The Mecca Accord: A New Islamic Defense Axis and the Challenge for India
A shift of tectonic proportions has occurred in Mecca.
Beyond the Proclamation: The Legal and Geopolitical Realities of Baloch Independence
The Balochistan asserted that It is an independent nation, marking August 11th as their true independence day.
A New Contender Emerges: Prashant Kishor and the Architecture of a Political Rebirth
## The stunning defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party in its thirty-year stronghold of Bankipur signals a shifting tectonic plate in Indian regional politics.
The Mirror Cracks: Pakistan’s Narrative Unravels in Occupied Kashmir
For decades, the official line from Islamabad has been a practiced performance of righteous indignation.
The Courage to Question: Democracy and the Duty of Dissent
In the grand theaters of democracy, the script is rarely written by the audience.
Right to protest Vs Power to Restrict
Right to protest Vs Power to Restrict The Chief Justice of India Surya Kant orally observed that the right to peaceful and lawful protest is constitutionally protected and that mere agitation cannot justify a lathi-charge.A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana made the observations on mentioning of a batch of petitions before the Supreme Court, alleging excessive use of police force against students participating in protests across the country over the issue of examination paper leaks.As noted by Menaka Guruswamy in her chapter dealing with Constitutional issues related to assembly in The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (edited by Sujit Choudhary et al), the freedom to assemble is a cornerstone of the life of citizens in a constitutional democracy.
The Digital Satyagraha: How India’s Youth Toppled a Narrative
In the quiet corners of the internet, a transformation has occurred that few in the traditional corridors of power anticipated.
The Fractured Republic: How Economic Neglect and Political Exclusion are Fraying Pakistan's Hold on PoK
The view from Muzaffarabad is increasingly one of defiance.
The Alchemy of the Desert: How Dubai Became the World’s Gold Hub
In the early 20th century, Dubai was little more than a modest coastal settlement.
The Limits of the Political Toolkit: India’s Youth and the Demand for Accountability
The cracks in the fortress of the Bharatiya Janata Party appear to be widening, and the source of the structural fatigue is not the usual political opposition.
Vande Mataram: The Song of Unity and the Discord of History
In the annals of India's long struggle for independence, few symbols carry the weight or the complexity of Vande Mataram.
The Lone Sentinel: Israel’s Drifting Anchorage in a Changing World
The geopolitical landscape of West Asia is undergoing a profound and unsettling transformation.
The Cracks in the Core: Narendra Modi’s Middle Class Discontent
For a decade, the political dominance of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rested upon a formidable foundation of middle-class loyalty and ideological conviction.
Who is a nationalist? What is true nationalism?
## By Prof K Nageshwar The political opposition, dissenting voices in civil society, anyone and everyone critical of the regime are often portrayed as anti-national by the current ruling dispensation in India.
US strikes Chabahar Port: Why the attack has put India on high alert
The delicate geopolitical balance in the Gulf of Oman has been destabilized by recent military actions.
The Great Dry Spell: India’s Fragile Rural Economy Faces A Monsoon Reckoning
The Indian economy is often described as a gamble on the monsoon.
Constitutional Perspective on Secularism
The Indian Constitution is both a legal and social document.