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

Keeping the Taliban at Arm’s Length

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August 15, 2021, was a sombre moment in Afghan social history. It marked two important milestones-the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan after a two-decade long occupation of the country under the pretext of...

The Age of Expansion is Over

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his bilateral press meeting with the Sultan of Darrusalem made a crucial point. He advocated how India stands for development and not expansionism. He also called on countries to...

Rekindling Old Ties

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Poland and Ukraine was a monumental step in the foreign policy lexicon of our country. India’s foreign policy in the post-Independence period was marked by a deep...

Strengthening Ties with Europe

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Poland and Ukraine is a message that India is trying to send to the European countries that it attaches equal importance to ties with its European allies...

India – An Aspiring Global Power with a Human Touch

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The current intellectual discourse in India and the world is moving around the ideas of reshaping global politics, with the narrative promoting humanism and sustainability at the international and personal levels. Morality and ethics,...

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...
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