Commodore S.L. Deshmukh

A Bengaluru startup’s breakthrough in magnet-free electric motors is a strategic step towards freeing India’s industrial future from China’s rare-earth dominance. For years, the global transition to electric mobility has rested on an uncomfortable paradox. The technologies powering a cleaner future have themselves depended on a supply chain controlled overwhelmingly by one country. Permanent magnets used in high-performance electric motors require rare-earth minerals, and China dominates not...

Pakistan’s Hangor-class submarines expose not just a shifting naval balance in the Indian Ocean, but also the cost of India’s chronic delays in defence procurement. The balance of power in the Indian Ocean is increasingly being shaped by vessels that are designed never to be seen. Pakistan’s induction of the Hangor-class submarine represents a calculated shift in Islamabad’s maritime strategy, backed by China, and poses uncomfortable questions about India’s own submarine modernisation. The...

In 1896, when Dhondo Keshav Karve founded the Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha (MKSSS) in Pune, the idea of educating women was not merely unconventional but an act of social rebellion. Karve’s radical yet simple conviction was by educating a woman, you altered not merely an individual life but the destiny of generations. More than 125 years later, that conviction has expanded. Social Mobility Today, MKSSS encompasses more than 65 institutions, ranging from schools and engineering...