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

The Shadow of AQIS and the Unspoken Bioterror Risk: India’s Quiet Vulnerability

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The 38th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, submitted pursuant to UN Security Council resolution 2734 (2024), has delivered an uncomfortable reminder. Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is no longer...

The Forum that Cannot Name the Threat

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was built to fight terrorism, yet its consensus structure gives Pakistan and China a permanent veto over naming cross-border threats. India remains in the bloc not to seek institutional...

When the State Stops Fearing Its Own Fracture

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Eighty-one years ago, two Japanese cities got turned to ash, and the survivors, the hibakusha, spent the rest of their lives insisting that the world keep remembering what a bomb does to human beings,...

The Masterclass Between the Lines

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When a former Intelligence Bureau officer with eleven years in the service sits down for a long, unguarded conversation, the result should be treated as primary-source material. Atul Chandra Kulkarni’s appearance on Jayesh Gangan’s...

No League Table for Spies

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A slick infographic has been circulating across strategic-affairs feeds this month. Under a fedora-shadowed spy silhouette and the tagline "Knowledge. Security. Nation.", it ranks the intelligence agencies of twenty-six countries from one to twenty-six. The...

The Punjabistan Question Among Pakistan’s Converging Crises and India’s Sober Choice

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For most of its history, Pakistan has been a crisis state that fought its crises one at a time. What makes the present moment different is that every fault line seems to have cracked...

The Kashmir Pakistan Ruled but Couldn’t Silence

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A revolt over electricity bills, wheat prices and stolen seats in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has exposed the hollowness of Islamabad’s favourite cause. For nearly 80 years, “Kashmir” in Pakistan's political vocabulary has meant one thing: a...

How Military AI Outran the Rulebook, Uncovering the Governance-Diffusion Gap 

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While the diplomats in Geneva were debating what exactly counts as an autonomous weapon, people on the ground were already putting AI to work for all kinds of things. They use it to forecast...

Beyond the “Islamic NATO”: Decoding the Makkah Defence Pact

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within hours of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement being signed at Al-Safa Palace on August 7, 2026 the label had already hardened in the headlines: an “Islamic NATO,” a “Sunni bloc,” a nuclear umbrella...

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...
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