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India Stands at a Defining Moment

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry -
The international order is undergoing its most profound transformation since the end of the Cold War. The conflict in Ukraine continues to reshape European security, the war in West Asia has heightened regional instability,...

India as Consequential Power: Testing Decade Ahead

Mrigank Shekhar -
Between roughly 2015 and 2025, India moved from being described as a promising ‘emerging power’ to something more substantive: a state with the industrial base, economic heft, and diplomatic reach to shape outcomes rather...

India Arrives: The Decade Power Stopped Being Borrowed

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane -
There is a particular kind of confidence that comes only from being tested. India in 2026 carries that confidence. For decades, the world described India in the future tense: an emerging market, a rising...

From Independence to Strategic Autonomy: India’s Next Decade of Uncrewed Capability

Jajati Mohanty -
Every Independence Day invites India to look back at the distance it has travelled. Yet August 15 is also a moment to look ahead and ask a more demanding question: what will independence mean...

India’s Geopolitical Moment

Maj Gen G Shankarnarayanan -
As the world stands at an inflection point, the meaning of "global power" has shifted radically—from a rigid Cold War binary dominated by the US and the dollar to a redefined concept of "global...

India’s Rise as a Consequential Power

Sudiptaa Paul Choudhury -
A decade ago, India was a story the world found promising. Today, it is a fact the world has to plan around. That shift—from potential to consequence—is the real transition of the past ten years,...

India’s Ascent Story Continues

Asad Mirza -
Adecade ago, India was grouped among the "Fragile Five" emerging markets, battered by inflation and a weak rupee. That narrative has been rewritten. India's nominal GDP has roughly tripled from ₹106.57 lakh crore in...

India’s Decade of Transition: Building Global Power Through Strategic Partnership

Boaz Levy -
As India celebrates its Independence Day, it does so as a nation whose influence increasingly extends far beyond its borders. Today, India is helping shape the future of the global economy, steering technological innovation...

The Predicament of a Swing Power

Maj Gen Deepak Mehra -
India's strategic positioning on the eve of August 15, 2026 is best understood not as a choice between old partnerships and new alignments, but as an attempt to operationalise strategic autonomy in a world...

India’s Deciding Decade

Dr R Shivaraman -
Every August, India tells itself a new version of the same story: a civilisation rediscovering its place in the world, a nation of scale finally matching its ambition. It is a story worth telling....

The Sinews of Power: India’s Strategic Autonomy in a Weaponised World

Air Marshal M Matheswaran AVSM VM (V) -
The world order is increasingly turning turbulent, driven by conflicts, wars and geopolitical contests across all dimensions. This "turbulence" is a symptom rather than the root cause. The underlying cause is a shift in...

The Missing Dimension: Women-Led Development as Strategic Power

Dr Sunandini -
“Equality written into a constitution is a promise; equality lived in a nation's institutions is power.” As India marks another Independence Day, its rise is customarily measured against economic growth, technological capability, military modernisation and...

India’s Next Chapter Will Be Defined by What It Builds

Shuki Schwartz -
For much of the past two decades, India was described as an emerging power – a nation with immense promise whose greatest achievements lay ahead. That description no longer fits. Today, India is one...

Invisible Defence Export: The Driving Force Behind India’s Power Shift

Shantanu Gupta -
When India's defence export figures are discussed, the conversation almost always turns to platforms: missiles, patrol vessels, armoured vehicles. Rarely mentioned is a quieter category sitting underneath all of them—the systems that train the...

Deepening Trust Aerate the India-Israel Defence Strategic Ecosystem

RA Editorial Desk -
On this auspicious Independence Day 2026, as the Indian tricolour flies high, India looks back on a year of unprecedented strategic self-reliance and forward to a future sculpted by technological defiance. The global order...

Hydrogen Technology Marks India’s Transition to Global Power

Dr Lakshmi Priya -
On July 17, India flagged off its first hydrogen fuel cell powered commercial train from Jind to Sonipat, marking its transition to global power. With this feat, India has joined Germany, Japan, China and...

India’s Strategic Surge

Lt Col Narendra Tripathi -
Over the last decade, the country has transitioned from one of the fastest-growing emerging economies to an increasingly consequential global actor. This enhanced standing is visible across economic expansion, military modernisation, leadership in technology,...

India Has Evolved into a Recognised Global Power

Dr Alexei Kupriyanov -
A dozen years have passed since the first Narendra Modi government came to power. It was an event that, in my view, marked a turning point for the country. I've been studying India for some...

India’s Next Decade: Converting its Potential into Leverage

Neeraj Singh Manhas -
For most of the post-independence era, India was described in the conditional tense as a country of enormous potential, forever ‘emerging’, forever a market of tomorrow. That framing is beginning to look dated. Across...

India’s Power Transition is Underway, Awaits Global Reckoning

Anurag Asthana -
Every August, the tricolour rises over Red Fort and the nation pauses to measure how far it has come. This year, that measurement feels different. For decades, India was described in the conditional tense...

The Long Climb…

Dr Aruna Prakash -
Over the past decade, India has witnessed a period of significant structural transformation across its economy, technology base and foreign policy.  It has transformed from a fragile economy into the world's fourth-largest, while building...

Navigating the New Multipolarity

Shankar Kumar -
As the US experiences a decline and the America-led order is being replaced by a multipolar world, India is steadily marking its presence on the global stage. Its economic growth, technological prowess, and growing...

Long-Standing Russian Partnership Backs Rising India’s Power Walk

Vinay Shukla -
Several decades have passed since India was considered a ‘global power in waiting’, as the world order created after the Second World War was the major factor of the balance and stability in the...

Urban Air Mobility: An Opportunity for India

Aman Deep Tripathi -
A trip that takes ninety minutes by road in an Indian city, can be covered by a small aircraft in just ten minutes. That gap – between how cities have grown and how people...

The Middle East: Anchoring India’s Global Power Rise

Md. Muddassir Quamar -
On August 15, 2026, as India celebrates the 80th Independence Day, it is important to assess its prominent presence on the global stage. Today, India and Indians are playing a vital role in all...

Sustaining its Ascent, India to Redefine the Power Game

Vipul V. Tamhane -
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...

India’s Quantum Leap: The New Meaning of Independence

Animesh Aaryan -
Seventy-nine years ago, India declared that it would govern itself — that its fate, its resources, and its voice would belong to no foreign power. That declaration was made with words, courage, and the...

An Anchor of Stability in a Turbulent World

Pranay K Shome -
Aristotle, one of the foundational thinkers in Western political thought, believed that change is inevitable. For him, change was not a phenomenon that brought forth instability and chaos; rather, it signified the movement of...

India’s Defining Decade Has Arrived

Joseph Sudheer Thumma -
For decades, India was described as a nation of immense potential, a country on the cusp of greatness, yet perpetually categorised as an ‘emerging power’. That narrative is rapidly becoming outdated. The decade ahead...

India’s Promising Next Decade

Bikki Sharma -
Power in the current era is not based solely on a country’s military strength and economic potential. It is also about its ability to influence global dialogue, form alliances, and make an impact on...
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