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Rivers of Discord and Power
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As the Indus Waters Treaty collapses under the weight of arbitral boycotts and upstream infrastructure competition, South Asia’s river basins are fast becoming the region’s defining geopolitical flashpoint.
For over six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 stood as...
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Terror Farce
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There is something almost comical about China and Pakistan sitting together at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and solemnly condemning terrorism. The recent Bishkek Declaration declared that “double standards” in the fight against terrorism was unacceptable. It called for action...
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Bollywood’s War of Narratives
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The Hindi film industry’s old formula of sanitising Pakistan and demonising Indian society is now facing a box-office challenge from films putting national security and historical memory at the centre of the story.
There have always been two distinct, divergent...
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Mediterranean Pivot
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As Turkey grows closer to Pakistan and the Mediterranean gains geopolitical weight, India has discovered an unlikely but useful partner in Cyprus.
In diplomacy, small states frequently become the hinges upon which larger geopolitical doors swing. Cyprus, a divided island...
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What Operation Sindoor Reveals About Two Different Militaries
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On the night of May 7, 2025, the Indian Air Force executed a military operation that lasted exactly 23 minutes. In that time, it struck nine targets across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with precision munitions, satellite-guided weapons, and loitering drones....
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With IWT Suspended, The Long Game Begins
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While India’s gamble has yet to choke Pakistan’s flows a year after the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, the move has redrawn the rules and weaponised water diplomacy.
One year has passed since the Pahalgam terror attack, an event...
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A War Without Sirens
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India’s security battle is no longer confined to contested borders but spans supply chains, trade routes and political narratives.
When Indians think of national security, the mind still conjures the familiar tableau of a jawan on vigil on n a...
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Cheering for Islamabad, Running Down India
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When sections of India’s self-anointed ‘liberal’ media cheer Pakistan’s fleeting diplomatic theatre, they reveal less about geopolitics than about their own reflexes.
There is a peculiar reflex that grips a section of India’s self-styled ‘liberal’ media whenever the world tilts...
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Empress of Elegant Evasions
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Nirupama Menon Rao’s diplomacy of denial collides with the ugly reality of Pakistan’s history of sponsored terror against India.
There is a particular kind of Indian diplomat – one who is retired, refined, erudite and reliably detached from consequence -...
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What the World Can Learn from India’s 1971 War
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Our country’s conduct in the 1971 War with Pakistan offers several lessons at a time when the principles of peaceful coexistence and a rules-based global order are in freefall.
History shows that any war in the Middle East has a...
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