Pranay K Shome

–The writer is currently working as a Research Associate at Defence Research and Studies (dras.in) and is a columnist. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

The Troubled Backyard

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"You can choose friends, not neighbours,” said former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. This quote is proving to be quite apt at this time. There has not been any time in the history of...

Pandemonium in the Middle East

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On July 31, Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas or Islamic Resistance Movement - the terrorist group responsible for carrying out the gruesome and egregious October 7, 2023, attack on Southern Israel, was assassinated...

Modi 3.0: Setting a New Template in Ties with the West

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It was a tense moment on June 4 for the Bhartiya Janata Party and its allies in the NDA camp when it seemed that the Modi magic of the last decade had faded into...

Olympus is Falling

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Politics is a dangerous game, history is witness to the fact that prominent historical figures have risen and ebbed in history thanks to politics, either by a popular uprising or conspiracy. Modern politics is...

Consensus-The India Way

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia and Austria was nothing short of a remarkable exercise in statecraft. India, which has a long history of strategic culture, is known to be a balancing power....

New Indian Maritime Doctrine Needed

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  That aggressiveness is anchored in human nature is a known fact. Robert Sapolsky, an American primatologist and neuroscientist in his book Behave has succinctly portrayed this, just like human beings are biologically wired to...

Countering Chinese Checkers

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The phrase “Hindi, Chini, bhai, bhai” (Indians and Chinese are brothers) was perhaps the most well-known yet naïve aphorism that emerged to describe India-China relations in the immediate post-independence period under the leadership of...

Giving a Bharatiya Makeover to Modernisation

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Evolution is a foundational principle of science. The concept of evolution originated in the landmark yet controversial 1859 book of Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species. Contrary to the popular perception that the universe...

Playing the Balancing Game

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  The foreign policy of a country is said to be a matter of stability. Respecting the initiatives of the predecessor administrations on key national issues that have international ramifications is seen as a way...

Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier of Human Evolution

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Human evolution has been an accident of sorts. The accidental invention of fire and agriculture contributed to the gargantuan advancement of the human race over eons. But fast forward to the post-Christ era, we...

The Great Ideological Divide

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Ideology, it seems, never went away from the ideational landscape of the world. It ebbed for a few decades after the cold war but now it seems it is back and with a vengeance....

The Human Rights-Sovereignty Debate in a Globalised World 

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  It is official. The British Parliament has officially passed the Anti-Migrant Bill, the flagship piece of legislation of the Rishi Sunak-led Conservative Government. The legislation aimed at sending illegal migrants who arrive in Britain via...

World on the Edge

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War clouds have been hovering over the Middle East for quite some time now. With the October 7 terror attack in southern Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, it was quite clear that a...
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