August 21, 2026

Category - 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 Anti-terror Battle: Whose Duty is it?

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.

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.