Vipul V. Tamhane

The writer is an expert on geopolitics, national security, and counter-terrorism; and he regularly contributes his subject thought-leadership and academic commentary with several publications in newspapers, journals, and periodicals. He works with investigative agencies, regulatory bodies, financial institutions and enterprises, providing strategic and regulatory advisory. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily carry the views of Raksha Anirveda

Sustaining its Ascent, India to Redefine the Power Game

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Every Independence Day invites a national accounting. We measure the distance travelled since 1947 in the familiar currencies of nationhood, output, arms, borders held, poverty pushed back. Honestly, the most consequential shift of the...

Eastern Frontier: Beyond the Barbed Wire

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On the surface, the Union Home Ministry’s plan to build nearly 40 permanent Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) campuses across West Bengal’s border districts reads like a procurement note. Some 50 acres of land, 1-1.5...

ASEAN Centrality Key to Restore Asia’s Order

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For three days in late July, the Philippine capital did something that no rival institution in the Indo-Pacific can consistently pull off: bringing the American, Chinese, Russian, Indian, and European foreign ministers under one...

Remembering the One Who Wanted “More” But Gave Everything He Had

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Every generation of soldiers seems to inherit a handful of names, the kind of which stop being just people and start acting like measuring sticks. In the Indian Army, Captain Vikram Batra is one...

The Vedic-Quantum Counterpoint: Why Civilisational Consolidation Protects Pluralism

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India has spent seven decades explaining itself to the world using borrowed terms such as ‘secularism’, ‘minority rights’, ‘communal harmony’, which were created for European nations dealing with post-Reformation religious turmoil. They were not...

Beyond Drones and Tanks

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Within the space of a single week, Ukraine lost two of the men who had come to symbolise its evolving military doctrine. On July 15, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the...

The Numbers and the Narrative

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Every few months, a fresh set of figures arrives confirming that India's defence sector is expanding rapidly. The latest, drawn from a Kotak Institutional Equities report, projects that defence capital expenditure will grow by...

The Nantou Lesson: India Must Build a Society That Remains Intact

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Taiwan’s Urban Resilience Exercises run from April through August, revealing a doctrine in which the battlefield is society itself. Early in July, in the mountainous county of Nantou, more than 370 Taiwanese officials rehearsed...

India’s UNSC Bid: A Real Contest, Not a Coronation

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On July 13, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will formally launch India's campaign in New York for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2028-29 term. It is, on paper, a...

The Neck and the Noose

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There is a certain type of strategic danger that emerges quietly—not through the mobilisation of armies or the issuance of diplomatic ultimatums, but through the gradual accumulation of engineering contracts, party-to-party memoranda and river-management...

Operation Sheruwali and the Long War in the Forests of Rajouri

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As of July 1, 2026 Operation Sheruwali entered its 40th day, with security forces continuing an extensive search operation in the forested areas of Dorimal in the Gambir Mughlan area of the Manjakote sector...

Talks Without Terms: India’s Asymmetric Bargain with Pakistan

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more than a year after the guns fell silent following Operation Sindoor, India and Pakistan are apparently talking again. London, Muscat, Bangkok, Doha, and now reportedly Colombo, a quiet circuit of Track 1.5 and...

Beyond Zero Tolerance

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When NSA Ajit Doval invoked "zero tolerance" for terrorism at the 16th BRICS National Security Advisers' Meeting in New Delhi, the phrase landed with the cadence of doctrine rather than diplomacy. India has been...
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