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….
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…
For decades, Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) — or Naxalism — bled India from within. Armed groups claimed to fight for the poor, but in truth, they unleashed a reign of terror across tribal belts, assassinating local leaders, extorting contractors, and running parallel “people’s courts.” Their false promise of “land to the tiller” was soaked in the…
When the country’s oldest and most respected business house finds itself in the middle of a power struggle, it ceases to be a corporate issue — it becomes a national one. The Tata Group, a 156-year-old conglomerate synonymous with India’s industrial rise and ethical capitalism, is not just a private enterprise. It is a national…
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…
As anticipated, the Telangana High Court has cleared the decks for the conduct of local body elections by refusing to stay — at least for now — Government Orders (GO) 9 and 41 issued by the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government enhancing reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) to 42 per cent in panchayats and municipalities. The…
India is witnessing monsoon fury like never before — killer landslides, flash floods and cloudbursts tearing through towns, sweeping away homes, and claiming hundreds of lives while destroying property worth crores. The climate crisis is no longer a distant projection. It is unfolding in real time, and its impact is being felt across India more…
As the Election Commission of India has announced the poll dates for Bihar as Nov 4 and 7, while counting will be on Nov 14, the state is once again bracing for a political showdown. The NDA and the India Alliance are loudly staking claims, but a new entrant, poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishore, is emerging…
India’s Military Modernisation for an Unpredictable World India is quietly, methodically transforming into a formidable military power — not to redraw maps or threaten neighbours, but to defend itself in a world that’s becoming increasingly uncertain and hostile. The new age of fast-moving geopolitics, shifting alliances, and proxy conflicts demands readiness, resilience, and rapid response….
In the ruthless chessboard of global geopolitics, power is not measured by the decibel level of speeches or the roar of missiles—it is measured by the silence before a strike. India’s recent covert operation against Turkey’s clandestine military structures has reaffirmed this truth. It has also demolished a long-standing myth: that India’s Research and Analysis…
