Historically, colonial powers considered it their prerogative to not only re-draw borders and create nations, but also to allot arbitrary geographic nomenclature to suit their geo-political designs. Post WW-II, it was America that decided...
India is modernizing (1) its defence, for a plethora of reasons, and rightly so. In the current and future contexts, India must focus on one word, to build its economic and defence powerhouse: balance....
Global Security Canvas and Future Threats
The geopolitical fragility weakened by the pandemic and the fundamental transformation in the global landscape has cast security challenges around the Asian landmass and the oceanic tides of the...
Year 2021 marks an important milestone in India’s journey towards fulfilling its ‘tryst with destiny’ which began at the stroke of midnight on the night of 14/15 August 1947 when India awoke while the...
The global disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic that engulfed the world at the end of 2019 and continues to this day is the biggest economic, political, and technological disruption since the Second World...
India celebrates its 75th Independence Day on August 15 amidst rapidly growing security concerns emanating from the enduring border disputes with China and Pakistan, China’s forays into the Indian Ocean Region, the Afghanistan imbroglio,...
The complex geo-politics of the world have been reshaping nearly every two decades. Russia and China are two giant neighbours that occupy the largest landmass in Asia. Traditionally they have been two antagonist societies...
At the age of 18, I came to this side of the erstwhile ‘Iron Curtain’ at the height of the Cold War and since then, I have been witness to the developments in the...
“This decade is a very important one, just like the decade after the Second World War, unlike earlier, we are not going to be a mute spectator. We will rise to the occasion based...
A new balance of power is shaping the world. Multilateralism, unilateralism and nationalism are all rising simultaneously, whileworld institutionsand the United Nations are losing influence and control. With the aggressive rise of China, a...
The ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission’ announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 12 this year has the objective of making India a ‘self reliant’ economy. Clarifications that followed emphasising that the ‘self reliance’ does...
ATMANIRBHAR:The buzzword today is open to interpretation by different people. For me it is the ownership of product IP. In the two contesting scenarios of designing and owning a product with lesser indigenous content...
The goal to achieve self-reliance, to become ‘Atmanirbhar’, has always been an integral part of Indian defence strategy. Many initiatives have been taken since Independence in that direction, from establishment of DRDO, setting...