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The Weaponisation of Technology and Critical Minerals: A New Grammer of Power

Lt Gen Ashok Bhim Shivane - September 15, 2026

For most of the modern era, power was measured in tanks, warheads and carrier groups. That measure is changing. A rare-earth magnet, a piece of denied software code, or a single lithography machine can...

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

Vipul V. Tamhane - September 15, 2026

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...

Cohesion Under Strain: The Geopolitics of the Modi-Xi New Delhi Talks

Hridbina Chatterjee - September 15, 2026

The mechanics of modern multipolar diplomacy often demand that bitter bilateral rivals share a stage to construct larger institutional alternatives to Western-dominated global governance. The 18th BRICS Summit held at Bharat Mandapam in New...

Global Affairs: India in a Unique Position

Maj Gen Harsha Kakar - September 15, 2026

India has been insisting that ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran must end. It refused to take sides, reiterating that these wars can only conclude through dialogue. In Kyiv, answering questions on why India...

Expanding Makkah Defence Alliance

Lt Gen Prakash Katoch - September 14, 2026

The Strategic, Political and Defence Committee of the Makkah Alliance held its first meeting in Istanbul on August 31, 2026, where the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan announced that the Makkah...

Strategising India’s Eurasian Outreach

Nalin Kumar Mohapatra - September 14, 2026

The conclusion of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan from August 29 - September 1 2026, as also the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with President...

BRICS 2026: India’s Diplomatic Dividend in a Fractured World

Asad Mirza - September 14, 2026

India’s most important achievement at BRICS 2026 was not a single agreement but the creation of diplomatic space among adversaries. New Delhi hosted Russia, China, Iran, the UAE and other major developing powers at...

Why India and Europe Should Build a Biofuel Corridor

Admin - September 14, 2026

The temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz in 2026 exposed a structural vulnerability in European energy security. Although the immediate disruption primarily affected crude oil and liquefied natural gas markets, it also highlighted...

The Pocket-Sized Threat: Rewiring Extremism

Brig Advitya Madan - September 13, 2026

Extremism no longer requires a physical space. A smartphone can serve as the entry point into an extremist ecosystem through a video, private message, gaming forum, or algorithmically recommended post. Digital environments can personalise...

The G-3 Directorate Threatens India’s Security

Vipul V. Tamhane - September 12, 2026

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...

Free(bees) Bite America

Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry - September 12, 2026

A $5,000 cheque sounds irresistible when it is somebody else who is promising to write it. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump promised a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult American if...

India and the US: Agony and Ecstasy of Relationship!

Col Rajinder Singh - September 12, 2026

"The United States would not repeat the ‘mistakes’ it made with China two decades ago by granting the same economic advantages that allowed Beijing to rise as a major commercial rival,” said Christofer Landau,...

BRICS 2026: A Message to Washington, Before the Summit

Asad Mirza - September 12, 2026

Friday, September 11, was technically the “pre-summit” day of BRICS 2026 - the leaders’ sessions proper begin Saturday - but it did more to set the tone of this year's gathering than any single...

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