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BRICS vs Bretton Woods is about a gradual reconfiguration of world financial architecture

India, May 31 -- As BRICS challenges Bretton Woods dominance, India balances de-dollarisation, sovereignty, and global financial realignment. Deep in the vaults of the Reserve Bank of India, a quiet ... Read More


Brown sepoys and colonial ghosts: The architecture of attention

India, May 24 -- The problem is the architecture of attention: western outlets applying ideal-type democratic standards to India apply different intensity standards to their own nations. When Helle L... Read More


God mode and ghost accounts: Anatomy of the Indian financial kill chain

India, May 10 -- Last week I was at SVPNPA, my Alma Mater-the IPS training academy-to address the opening session of an in-service course on cybercrime, where I discussed the cybercrime ecosystem and ... Read More


No more free lunches: How Washington is dismantling the Internet we know

India, May 3 -- For nearly two decades, the digital age has operated on a deceptively simple bargain: we surrender our data, they provide the services. It felt symbiotic-perhaps even egalitarian. A st... Read More


When scholars become mercenaries: Pak's covert campaign to buy, brief and deploy expert opinion

India, April 26 -- Pahalgam, 22 April 2025-26 lives extinguished, a wound India refused to let fester. unanswered. Within 24 hours, New Delhi suspended the Indus Waters Treaty; a decisive act of state... Read More


Venture capitalist state: How India can procure innovation like a VC fund

India, April 19 -- Techno-economic supremacy emerges as nations harness innovation to transform potential into economic advantage. Some countries have mastered this by revolutionizing government procu... Read More


No One Left Behind: The 48-Hour Race to Rescue a Pilot in Iran's Zagros Mountains

India, April 12 -- In the dead of night, atop the jagged spine of Iran's Zagros Mountains, a single American airman lay etched into a rocky crevice-breath shallow, body battered, fate hanging by a fra... Read More


The Frog, the Ox and Pak's Dangerous Diplomatic Fantasy

India, April 5 -- There is something eternally human in the tale of a puffedup frog and an ox-our ability to dream beyond our boundaries, to inflate ourselves with possibility until we burst from shee... Read More


Fuel and Fire: India Shows Quiet Resolve in the Gulf Crisis

India, March 29 -- The year 2026 will be etched in India's memory not for the distant rumble of geopolitical upheaval, but for the quiet confidence of a nation that turned crisis into conviction. When... Read More