A Crisis near the Strait of Hormuz is never merely a distant geopolitical event. It enters the country quietly, through shipping routes, insurance premiums, energy invoices, freight costs, and household anxieties. What begin as external conflict can, within days, influence how a nation consumes, prices, stores, and reacts. That is why Hormuz is not only […]
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The expiry of New START marks the end of an orderly era of nuclear accounting. The new anarchy is digital, industrial, and far harder to count. When the “New START” treaty was signed in Prague in 2010, it arrived as the final, polished gear of a Cold War machine that still, remarkably, functioned. The
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If I had to describe 2025 in one line, I would say “It was a year where the world refused to behave.” What used to be predictable became uncertain, alliances shifted, tariffs returned, neighbours bristled, and the global system stopped pretending it was stable. From elections and trade tensions to wars, protests, and new laws
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Beyond Symbolism, Toward Systems India’s first Swadeshi moment taught us that everyday choices can bend history. Swadeshi 2.0 asks for something harder—and better. Not bonfires, but benchmarks. Not closing doors, but opening workshops that meet the world’s toughest standards. This is a movement of preference, not prohibition: we will buy Indian when Indian earns our
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When I saw the ticker flash about new U.S. tariffs hitting Brazilian coffee, my first reaction was simple: this isn’t a supply story—it’s a strategy story. And it starts with names. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is now central to America’s morning ritual. If Washington taxes Brazil’s beans hard, the ripple runs through
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When Jensen Huang, is in Taipei for Computex 25 AMD unveiled its latest AI processors this year, the headlines focused on benchmark numbers and promises of faster, smarter machines. But for me, the launch was a reminder of a narrow stretch of sea 180 kilometers off the coast of China — the Taiwan Strait —
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I was running through month-end deliverables at my desk, engrossed in a Power BI report that was screaming more red than usual. My colleague Sagar rushed in, wide-eyed, and asked, “You know what just happened at the White House?” “War of words between President Zelensky and Mr. Trump,” he said. Clicked BBC on my phone—it
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We are living in an age of “Perma-Risks,” where crises are no longer episodic but constant—and the events of the past year have only magnified this reality. As we enter 2025, the lines between global challenges have blurred into near permanence. Geopolitical fractures, economic instabilities, technological disruptions, and climate catastrophes are no longer isolated threats;
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In the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, a strategic chess game is unfolding. As China attempts to extend its maritime influence through its “String of Pearls” strategy, India has emerged as the region’s principal security guarantor, undertaking its most significant naval modernization since independence. INS Varsha: India’s Strategic Masterstroke At the heart of India’s
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For the last half-century, the global order has been shaped not just by nuclear arsenals or energy reserves, but by technological hegemony. From microchips to artificial intelligence, each wave of technological disruption has shifted the center of gravity of global power. We are now on the brink of another such seismic shift—and it’s called Quantum
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