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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 Pressure Environment: Why India Must Read the Convergence Without Fear

Security planners are trained to think in terms of convergence: the moment when separate pressures, each manageable alone, arrive at the same time and stretch the state's attention, resources and legitimacy. India is in...

From the UNGA Pulpit to the Grey Zone: Pakistan’s UN Theatrics and India’s Real Battle

Last week, Shehbaz Sharif walked up to the green-marble podium in New York and told the world that Kashmir “has and always will be Pakistan's jugular vein.” That same week, India's External Affairs Minister...

Modern Warfare: Final Decision Must Remain in Human Control 

The most dangerous decision in the next major war may not be made by a machine. It may be made by a human who has been given only seconds to decide. For a decade, the...

The Security Ledger of New Delhi 2026: What the BRICS Summit Means for India and South Asia

When the 18th BRICS Summit concluded at Bharat Mandapam on September 13, the headlines belonged to the diplomats: a consensus declaration wrung from 11 quarrelsome members, 15 bilaterals in three days, a rare Xi...

Framing the Frame: What Pakistan’s SCO Crop Really Signifies

On September 1, 2026, at the close of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, the official account of Pakistan's Prime Minister's Office posted the customary family photograph of the assembled heads...

The G-3 Directorate Threatens India’s Security

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes an expanded BRICS to Bharat Mandapam this week, the summit's real significance for India's security lies not in anything that will be signed in Delhi, but in a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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