Category: Insights

WHO SHAPES IRAN’S FUTURE : ITS PEOPLE, THE REGIME OR FOREIGN POWERS?

WHO SHAPES IRAN’S FUTURE : ITS PEOPLE, THE REGIME OR FOREIGN POWERS?

On the 22nd of Bahmani (Iranian Calendar) corresponding to 11 February 2026, Iran celebrated its 47th anniversary of the 1979
Read More
RADICALISATION PARADIGMS: THE RISE OF EDUCATED EXTREMISTS

RADICALISATION PARADIGMS: THE RISE OF EDUCATED EXTREMISTS

Radicalisation has traditionally been viewed as a peripheral phenomenon, confined to remote training camps, clandestine safe houses or the shadows
Read More
THE DEATH OF DIPLOMACY

THE DEATH OF DIPLOMACY

WHY THE CARACAS RAID IS A TURNING POINT FOR INDIA The early-morning images of a blindfolded Nicolás Maduro being led
Read More
WAR OF NERVES

WAR OF NERVES

The wars of the future will be wars for digital dominance, where the side that controls the flow of information,
Read More
DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA’S SEA-BASED NUCLEAR DETERRENCE

DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA’S SEA-BASED NUCLEAR DETERRENCE

Gradual Steps Towards a Reset Despite Divergent Interests As most readers would know, the world entered the oft-called nuclear age
Read More
FISSURES AND FAULTLINES IN WEST BENGAL

FISSURES AND FAULTLINES IN WEST BENGAL

West Bengal occupies a strategic location - it is India’s Eastern gateway, a cultural bridge between the mainland, the Northeast
Read More
INDIA – CHINA DÉTENTE

INDIA – CHINA DÉTENTE

Gradual Steps Towards a Reset Despite Divergent Interests Many Western analysts have opined that President Donald Trump’s tariff penalties on
Read More
PAKISTAN’S MIDDLE EASTERN DILEMMA

PAKISTAN’S MIDDLE EASTERN DILEMMA

Is our Western Neighbour walking into a Thucydidean Trap? It is not easy to be in Pakistan, with a crisis
Read More
VIOLENT PROTESTS, MILITARY INTERVENTION AND REGIME CHANGE

VIOLENT PROTESTS, MILITARY INTERVENTION AND REGIME CHANGE

In the last few years violent protests have rocked our neighbours, to a large extent led by youth leaders, with
Read More
INDIA AND THE FRACTURED GLOBAL ORDER

INDIA AND THE FRACTURED GLOBAL ORDER

Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation created in 1971 and established on the basis of Bengali nationalism, with secular credentials, has
Read More