India’s semiconductor initiative dates back to 1976 when the Semi-Conductor Laboratory was set up at Mohali, Punjab, which suffered a set-back due to fire destroying its facilities. For over four decades, successive governments failed to reactivate the initiative. As a result, India lags behind in the field by at least 10-15 years. After a four-decade…
A $500 billion industry that is expected to grow to $ 1 trillion by 2030! In India semiconductor consumption is expected to grow to roughly $70 billion by 2026 and to cross $148 billion by 2030 – mostly from imports, raising the import bill. China buys more than 50% of the chips manufactured globally. The Chip-makers: Semiconductors were invented in…
India is besieged by a migration crisis due to open, porous borders, archaic laws, and population control policies. Ipso facto, migrations threaten social, political and economic equilibrium – contra national security interests. There are over 4 types of migrations. An attempt has been made to provide a perspective covering two types, that is, illegal migrations…
India’s geography, history, and politics are incredibly complex to understand. Geography is mostly reviewed cursorily. Even many overlook the course of the past 8000-year history, and how it influences the current and future course. Most importantly understanding the ramifications of strategic security challenges is myopic. No wonder, the internal crisis explosion is real with external…
Let me repeat, what I wrote in early 2001 over two decades ago, that “India is besieged by all-round crises: external and internal. By contrast, other nations pale into insignificance. Many holistic phrases coined by intellectual elites include: Geography is destiny; History, too, is destiny, for understanding the future and studying the past; and so…
The implications of the key issue over Rs.72,000 crore Great Nicobar Development Project to develop transshipment port, an international airport, township development, and a 450 MVA gas and solar-based power plant on the island needs a holistic review from national security interests: “Should Environmental & Tribal Activism override National Security Interests?” A number of articles…
Bangladesh is indisputably galloping in rapid transformation mode ahead of Pakistan as the “Epi-Center” of Islamist radical terrorism. The clash between Islamic and Hindu culture is real. It holds dangerous portends in posterity for India. List of Native Terrorist groups include: the Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami/Bangladesh (HuJI-B) – (1992); Bangladesh Taliban; Jamaatul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) – 1989; Jamaat ul-Mujahideen (JUM); Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (JeL),…
During his ongoing visit to the US, Rahul Ghandy (RG) is hell-bent upon proving his mentor Sam Pitroda(aka Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda of Gujarat lineage) wrong by his disparaging remarks on a variety of subjects like politics, economy and technology. Quite paradoxical and ironic Sam Pitroda is commendation that “RG has a vision contrary to what…
Is Mamata Banerjee (MB), the firebrand leader of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and Chief Minister of West Bengal, a “Megalomaniac” or “Narcissist”? Her behavioral traits, particularly during the recent past, tend to portray her as a deadly combination of a “Megalomaniac and Narcissist.” How MB is making attempts to wriggle out of the…
Brig (retd GB Reddi) The Islamist terrorist envelopment of South Asia is a daunting prospect when viewed from a holistic strategic security perspective. Late General Bipin Joshi in his address to the IPS probationers at the NPA Hyderabad (1993 to 1994), prophesized the “Islamic Crescent Envelopment of South Asia”. Of course, its current status may…
