Gold, Geopolitics, and India’s Economic Discipline
Hon’able Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent appeal asking Indians to voluntarily avoid purchasing gold jewellery for one year is not merely a symbolic patriotic gesture.
Category International Relations and Strategic Studies
What Viktor Orbán’s Fall Reveals About Modern Democracies
TK Arun Illiberal despots can be deposed without an insurrection within the framework of an electedautocracy In the end, Hungary’s Viktor Orban quietly conceded defeat and congratulated the opponent who has trounced him. He did not rig the electoral rolls,…
China’s Balancing Act Grows Harder Amid U.S. Iran Policy Reversals
China’s carefully crafted, if contradictory, policy on the current conflict in Iran is coming under increasing strain, threatening to derail its trade, energy flows, its relations with the United States and the Gulf countries, and its ambitions to invade Taiwan.
India Needs State-Backed AI Capacity, Not Mythmaking
Anthropic, the US AI giant that seeks to differentiate itself from other AI firms as being the champion of ethics and responsibility, has restricted initial access to its new powerful AI model-cum-agent, Mythos, to 40 organisations. All of them, except British AI Security Institute, are American. Reason for the restricted access? Mythos is so powerful that it can detect hidden vulnerabilities in software systems. If hackers get their hands on it, they could wreak havoc.
Iran Is Exposing the Limits of American Power
As the negotiations between Iran and the United States mediated by Oman were giving some hope to avert the war, on February 28, US President Donald Trump got played by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and followed the same playbook as June 2025 and launched decapitating attacks on Iran and its leadership, crossing the final redline by killing Ayatollah Khamenei and top military brass.
How Should ‘Hellhole’ Relate to ‘Paradise’? Or, in non-Trumpian terms, the future of Indo-US relations
President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, the transcript of a vituperative podcast by a Make-America-Great-Again champion that describes India and China as hellholes.
India’s Silence On Trump’s Iran Threats Undermines Its Global South Role
It is strange leadership of the Global South for India to stay mute when the leader of the most powerful nation on earth threatens a fellow developing country with annihilation.