Darshana & Itihasa: The Civilizational Gaze

Vali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History reads less like a conventional history book and more like a conversation with a cou...

The American narrative is constructed with remarkable elegance: a republic born in defiance of tyranny, consecrated to liberty, animated by ...

The wars of great powers rarely produce only one battlefield. Beneath the thunder of missiles and the rhetoric of retaliation, another conte...

Empires do not fall merely because their armies weaken or their treasuries empty. They collapse when the world ceases to believe in their au...

Civilizations are often remembered through their monuments, their wars, and their scriptures. Yet the deeper measure of a civilization lies ...

Of all wars, the most relentless are civil wars; of all civil wars, the most implacable are those between brothers. History does not merely ...

History has a paradoxical affection for small nations that refuse to behave like small nations.  In the shadow of vast empires and continent...

India does not occupy a permanent seat in America’s grand strategy; it occupies a fluctuating utility. That is the uncomfortable truth benea...

The early-February 2026 layoffs at The Washington Post , reportedly affecting more than 300 journalists, have been read by many as a tragedy...

Artificial intelligence has moved decisively from being a technology domain to becoming an instrument of statecraft.  For India, the United ...

To think like a state is not to think expansively, but integratively. It is to see policy not as a collection of announcements, incentives, ...

Yesterday’s meeting and conversation with Ms. Lakshmi V. Venkatesan, Founder and Managing Trustee of the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust, unfold...

Regime change is often sold as precision engineering. Remove the leader, manage the transition, restore order. Clean. Surgical. Final. Linds...

Maduro at 2023 South American summit History has a habit of repeating itself, first as justification and later as regret. Venezuela today st...

The contemporary Western fascination with artificial intelligence is often framed as a triumph of innovation or a natural culmination of sci...

Power is not only measured in armies, alliances, or economic scale. It is also shaped by how a civilisation understands itself — its memory ...

Western commentary has a strange habit: it grows loudest precisely when India refuses to play the role scripted for it. With Russian Preside...

History is often narrated as if it were a sermon. We like to believe that moral clarity triumphs, that civilizations rise when virtues bloss...

Plaque Commemorating Formation of  IMF in July 1944 The global order is a museum of Western power — polished, curated, and protected by velv...