Darshana & Itihasa: The Civilizational Gaze

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...

India’s strategic imagination has increasingly shifted from the Himalayas to the high seas. The Indian Ocean, long treated as a backdrop of ...

Bhishma Lying on the Bed of Arrows Among the six classical systems (darshanas) of Indian philosophy, Sankhya and Yoga stand as closely relat...

Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, Ciano  just before signing the  Munich Agreement, Sept 1938 Since the guns roared in Ukraine and t...

President Reagan with Afghan Mujahideen Oval Office, 1983 Afghanistan and Pakistan are once again at war, each claiming to have struck devas...

“Russia plays chess, China plays Go, and America plays poker.” ~ With this one line, economist Jeffrey Sachs captures the essence of global ...

When Russia sells uranium to the United States, it is deemed a matter of strategic necessity. But when Europe attempts to import Russian oil...