M.S Shanker

NDA’s Bihar Comeback Looks Unstoppable

Bihar’s political script for 2025 seems to be writing itself — and the ending increasingly appears to favour the NDA. While confusion and friction continue to dominate the Congress-led INDI alliance, the Nitish Kumar–Narendra Modi combine has already moved into campaign overdrive with clarity, coordination, and confidence. The contrast could not be starker. On one…

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Pessimists’ Nightmare, Nationalists’ Pride

It’s almost amusing how a certain breed of self-styled defence experts in India—perpetual cribbers and professional pessimists—find comfort in running down their own country’s military progress. Every indigenous success, every technological leap, every global acknowledgment of India’s growing might is met with skepticism, sarcasm, or silence. For them, the glass is never half full—it’s broken….

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India’s Silent Surge in Modern Warfare

HAL’s Rise from Criticism to Cutting-Edge Innovation For decades, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was the easy punchline in India’s defence circles — a lumbering public sector giant accused of inefficiency, delays, and technological stagnation. Defence analysts routinely derided it as a relic of the license-raj era, incapable of producing world-class aircraft despite decades of government…

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India’s Shrewd Diplomatic Chess Game

India’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has evolved into a masterclass in strategic ambiguity — a careful blend of pragmatism, restraint, and quiet assertion. Few recent moves illustrate this better than New Delhi extending an invitation to Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, allowing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to…

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