Articles, Culture & Society, Politics, Security & Strategy
Missing Treaty of Sugauli a political ploy?
he author argues that Nepal's renewed claim over Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh, and Kalapani—conveniently timed with the resumption of India-China trade via Lipulekh—rests on shaky historical ground, since past Nepalese kings never disputed these territories and repeated searches have failed to even locate the original Sugauli Treaty document. With no treaty map defining the Kali's source and both sides relying on competing British-era records, the author concludes that only diplomacy, not legal appeals to a treaty neither side can fully verify, can resolve the dispute.
Articles, Diplomacy, Security & Strategy
India and Japan: Anchoring Stability in an Uncertain Indo-Pacific
The author argues that the India-Japan partnership has matured from shared strategic vision into concrete, practical cooperation across defence, technology, and economic security, driven by the two countries' complementary strengths. He contends that as US engagement grows uncertain and Quad momentum slows, India and Japan are emerging as key stabilising actors actively helping protect the wider Indo-Pacific order, rather than merely contributing to it.
The author argues that India’s progress towards Viksit Bharat is increasingly within reach, but its next challenge is to develop strategic, intellectual, and cultural self-reliance rather than merely pursue material development. He argues that this requires greater accountability, resilience against cognitive and information warfare, and a distinctly Bharatiya vocabulary and mindset rooted in India’s civilisational heritage rather than borrowed Western frameworks.
Author argues that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's attempt to shift blame for security lapses onto the Lieutenant Governor obscures a deeper, decades-old trust deficit between Srinagar and New Delhi, one rooted in successive Kashmiri political leaderships' own complicity in nurturing separatism, radical seminaries, land grabs, and the persecution of Kashmiri Pandits, making the state's political establishment, not any constitutional ambiguity, ultimately responsible for the erosion of trust that enabled terrorism to take root.
Articles, Environment & Climate, Maritime Security, Policy
Samudra Manthan: The Ocean India Is Finally Ready to Explore
The author argues that Samudra Manthan represents a mature, well-sequenced policy response to India's costly oil import dependence, building on a decade of regulatory reform by sharing deepwater drilling risk with private operators. He contends that if executed well, following the precedent set by Brazil and Guyana, the scheme could meaningfully boost India's energy security and domestic hydrocarbon production.
Articles, Culture & Society, Economics, Environment & Climate, Security & Strategy
From Geopolitical Asset to Energy Hub: Reimagining Trincomalee in India–Sri Lanka Relations
The article argues that Trincomalee is undergoing a strategic transformation from a historically contested geopolitical maritime asset into a geoeconomic and energy cooperation hub, reflecting the shift in India–Sri Lanka relations towards connectivity, energy security, and regional resilience while balancing the strategic influence of external powers in the Indian Ocean.
