T.K. ARUN India’s AI ambitions in national security will falter without scientific temper, institutional reform and a retreat from sectarian politics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the subject of many brainstorming sessions by different interest groups, ranging from trade unions…
T.K. ARUN The summit of the elites feels different this time, thanks to Trump and the disruptions he is wreaking on the world. When the going gets crazy, in-person meetings reacquire significance for decision-makers. Davos is back in the spotlight,…
T.K. ARUN Trump’s revival of imperial doctrine upends global norms, pressures India strategically, and demands stronger sovereignty, economic resilience, and principled opposition. More than a whiff of the 19th century wafts into the 21st, thanks to President Donald Trump’s White…
T.K. ARUN It is a Board for Undermining the UN and the rest of the multilateral framework. “Will you walk into my parlour?” said a spider to a fly;“‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.The way into…
ARUN KUMAR GDP is taken to give an idea of the production of goods and services in an economy. Because of the huge diversity of what is produced in a modern society, aggregation becomes difficult. GDP yields one monetary number…
ARUN KUMAR It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised faster and as per our own blueprint if we had not been disrupted by the British colonial…
ARUN KUMAR If there was one feature that characterised the Indian economy in 2025, it was uncertainty. This stemmed from both internal and external factors. The penal tariffs imposed on India by US President Donald Trump were central to this…