India is besieged by round crises: external and internal. By contrast, other nations pale into insignificance. At one stage, globalization due to high-tech breakthroughs was hailed as making borders irrelevant by experts and media. Some of them predicted the end of geography or history or demographics. Yet, the primordial and ethnic loyalties have resurfaced globally…
The slogan “Viksit Bharat by 2047”, an optimistic vision, is often repeatedly invoked by Modi and other BJP leaders. But, what is the reality? Is it possible when view in the past 75 years of the independent India story from all angles? Of course, “to dream a new dream or build castles in the air”…
What been achieved in the agreement preceding the Xi Jinping-Modi bilateral meeting reaffirmed that “maintaining peace on the border (Line of Actual Control – LAC) should be our priority” and “mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual sensitivity should be the basis of our ties” may be viewed as political posturing or diplomatic grandstanding? Even their…
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),…
