- 26 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityPolicy & Governance
Defence Modernisation Validated by Accountability
Defence Modernisation Validated by Accountability India has fought four and a half wars, and is currently embroiled in unresolved tussle, just short of war, with China. Leaving out Kashmir conflict…
US Defence Secretary: India-A Central Pillar in Indo Pacific
US Defence Secretary Austin’s visit to India had multiple facets. It was important bilaterally for us for making an assessment of the perspectives of the new Pentagon chief on India-US…
India Israel Relations – An Overview
India-Israel relations have always been an ongoing topic for academic research and journalistic reporting, as well as a fascinating experience for practitioners. Many generations of diplomats, scholars and reporters have…
Kashmir and the International Media
In August 2019, Narendra Modi and his new Home Minister, Amit Shah, abrogated Article 370, which had given a special status to Kashmir since 1948. A lot of adverse western…
Changing Dimensions of Border Security
India has 15106.70 Km long borders with six of our neighbours. This includes 106 Km with Afghanistan lying in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). These represent the extremes of jurisdiction of…
Ups and Downs in India-China Ties: A Diplomat’s Perspective
A broad understanding of the evolution of India-China relations since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1950 is necessary to understand the current imbroglio and strained ties between the two…
Future of United Nations Peacekeeping and India’s Continued Participation
General The direction in which United Nations Peacekeeping is headed requires a careful analysis at this critical juncture as the international organisation that was set up in the aftermath of…
Police Reforms and National Security
It is a great irony that while we are capable of sending a mission to Mars, can launch intercontinental ballistic missiles and are a formidable IT power, we are yet…
A Misguided Call for Khalistan
It is sad that the demand for Khalistan has reared its ugly head once again in the West where some Sikhs can make statements about Khalistan without realising the consequences…
Dousing the Embers : Thoughts on India’s Future Internal Security Challenges
At the outset let me admit that neither the title nor the theme of this essay is an original. I have borrowed it from the doyen of Indian military institutions,…
Leveraging Defence Expos for an Atmanirbhar Defence and Aerospace Ecosystem
The 13th edition of the AeroIndia, one of the two flagship events that the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence hosts every two years alternatively with the…
India-Afghanistan Relations: Need for Strategic Re-Orientation
Geo-Political Overview of India-Afghanistan Strategic Relationship. While the older generation will remember Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwallah’ with nostalgia, the current generation of Indians will think of war-torn Afghanistan with empathy, as Afghanistan…
