Opinion

Sri Lankan Crisis: PM Wickremesinghe Looks Towards India to Avert Civilian War

Sri Lanka is in a grave crisis and is finding it difficult to overcome it in the short span of time. Caught in a cleft stick due to excessive burden of foreign debts and...

The Russo-Ukrainian War: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead

  At the time of writing, the Russo-Ukrainian war was in the form of an onslaught by the Russian forces to tame Ukraine to succumb to Russia’s demands and not join NATO. It was the...

India’s Dependence on Russia Must End

The Ukraine-Russia war may well be a watershed in international relations signalling the emergence of new paradigms and alignments in the world. Putin’s cold-blooded pursuit of aggression as a means of achieving political ends...

HDPE to Boost Making of Superior Watercrafts

  PFG, a Tasmanian company on May 10 unveiled its Sentinel 1100 -11m-long tactical watercraft designed primarily for maritime interdiction. The watercraft was unveiled at the international maritime exhibition, Indo-Pacific 2022 held in Sydney. The...

Positive Indigenisation Lists: Does Formal Ban on Imports Help?

  With the notification of the third ‘positive indigenisation list’ of 101 items on April 07, 2022, the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) has so far banned import of 310 defence items in the last...

India’s Contemporary Security Concerns in South Asia

  "You can change friends, not neighbours” was famously said by former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Security is one of the most important issues which affected and continues to affect the course...

Deciphering India’s Stand in the Russo-Ukraine War

  On February 24, 2022, after weeks of playing guessing games with the world’s imagination, and Ukraine’s speculations, Moscow let loose its firepower against Ukraine. The “he will – he wouldn’t” assumptions amongst the arm-chair...

Asian Unity: No Longer a Pipe Dream

  Recently, the Chinese President Xi Jinping has given a call for promoting Asian unity. He argued that the time has come for Asian nations to set aside their respective cultural, linguistic, economic and all...

Is Antonio Guterres America’s puppet?

  On April 26, 2022, India took a position opposing the adoption of the resolution on standing mandate for the General Assembly (GA) meeting in case of use of ‘veto’ by the UNGA. The resolution text...

After the Ukraine War, there will be a Multipolar World

  WAR SCAN: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the most important clash in decades between Moscow and the West. Russia began its invasion on February 24 thinking of creating shock and awe with its...

Strategic Autonomy Must Include Economic Autonomy

  India has effectively conveyed to the West that it will continue to adopt strategic autonomy including in terms of security. The US has grudgingly understood this and scholars of American think tanks are acknowledging...

Checkmating China’s Shenanigans

  “Parvane ko nahi pata ki jis shamaa se who lipat raha hai, wahi usko jalaa kar raakh kar degi.” Have you heard of this famous Bollywood line about fatal attraction of the moth to...

Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy in the Contemporary World

  The global human society is in a constant state of flux, every dimension and aspect of human activity is undergoing change. Politics is no different, especially international politics. Ever since the establishment of the...
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