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Brute force vs lean math: How China cracked the cost code of AI supremacy

India, July 5 -- While Washington fixates on export controls and hardware restrictions, a quieter, more insidious dependency takes root in the foundational software layer. For years, the global archi... Read More


Arson, amnesia, and the peacemaker's mask: The great Pakistan makeover

India, June 28 -- Every Iranian enrichment advance, every shortening of the path towards weaponsgrade uranium, rests upon foundations poured by Pakistani hands. Kafkaesque; in the grand theatre of nu... Read More


Fable 5, Fallen: When a trillion-dollar AI needed a passport

India, June 21 -- The Americans have decided frontier models are not global software products; they are strategic assets, as tightly locked as nuclear centrifuges or fighter jets. There is a moment-a... Read More


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