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Why Netanyahu’s search for Israel’s legitimacy runs through India?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration of Indian love for Israel was less a diplomatic compliment than a propaganda manoeuvre — one that reveals more about Israel’s search for legitimacy than about India’s actual foreign policy.
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this month’s focus
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BJP’s West Bengal victory impacts India’s ties with Bangladesh
A state election win reshapes regional geopolitics along the Bay of Bengal
in-depths
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Noida to Faridabad workers’ unrest: India’s wage protests collide with global war economy
The Noida Faridabad labour unrest, triggered by a wage dispute in NCR, has rapidly escalated into a wider confrontation between workers and the state. As protests spread across industrial hubs, the Noida Faridabad labour unrest highlights deep structural tensions driven by low wages, rising living costs, and contested labour reforms. With inflation rising amid global…
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Europe’s India embrace: Democracy talk abroad, silence at scale
As Brussels deepens ties with New Delhi, mounting evidence of electoral exclusion and institutional drift raises an uncomfortable question: is Europe trading its values for access?
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Why China won’t intervene in US war on Iran — and why it can’t
As Washington tightens its chokehold on Iran, a familiar question returns — and reveals a deeper misunderstanding of how power actually works
South Asian affairs
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One year after Operation Sindoor, India counts wins it can’t show
One year after Operation Sindoor, India celebrates precision strikes across Pakistan. But beneath the official narrative lies a more complex story — of concealed losses, diplomatic reversals and a regional balance that shifted in unexpected ways.
Geopolitics
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India’s foreign policy in West Asia faces limits as Iran crisis deepens: Russian expert
India is deeply exposed to the Iran crisis but has little leverage to influence events. What does that reveal about its West Asia strategy? A Russian expert answers.
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Why China won’t intervene in US war on Iran — and why it can’t
As Washington tightens its chokehold on Iran, a familiar question returns — and reveals a deeper misunderstanding of how power actually works
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Iran-US peace talks in Pakistan stall: Europe’s energy future hangs in balance
The collapse of Iran-US negotiations reveals widening strategic gaps and raises immediate risks for Europe’s energy security and supply chains.
Tech, trade and geoeconomy
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Mythos, Palantir and American AI power’s architecture
Two American tech companies — one guarding the model, one running the kill chain — have together made the Global South a subject of the AI age rather than a participant in it.
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AI warfare: Machine pulls no trigger, humans do
The US used Palantir’s Maven Smart System and Anthropic’s Claude AI to generate over 1,000 strike targets in 24 hours during Operation Epic Fury in Iran. As 168 children lie dead in Minab, the question is not whether the machine erred — but who gave it the map.
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Pomp before power: India’s AI Impact Summit highlights embarrassing gaps
India wants to lead the AI race. First, it may need to build the engine.
Global conflicts
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Why Netanyahu’s search for Israel’s legitimacy runs through India?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration of Indian love for Israel was less a diplomatic compliment than a propaganda manoeuvre — one that reveals more about Israel’s search for legitimacy than about India’s actual foreign policy.
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India’s foreign policy in West Asia faces limits as Iran crisis deepens: Russian expert
India is deeply exposed to the Iran crisis but has little leverage to influence events. What does that reveal about its West Asia strategy? A Russian expert answers.
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India’s diplomatic crisis over Iran exposes West Asia balancing act’s limitations
As tensions around Iran reshape West Asia’s geopolitical landscape, India finds itself trapped between Washington, Tehran, Israel and the Gulf monarchies. The resulting diplomatic crisis is exposing the limits of New Delhi’s strategic autonomy while fuelling economic anxiety at home through rising fuel prices, shipping disruptions and mounting geopolitical pressure.
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One year after Operation Sindoor, India counts wins it can’t show
One year after Operation Sindoor, India celebrates precision strikes across Pakistan. But beneath the official narrative lies a more complex story — of concealed losses, diplomatic reversals and a regional balance that shifted in unexpected ways.
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Mythos, Palantir and American AI power’s architecture
Two American tech companies — one guarding the model, one running the kill chain — have together made the Global South a subject of the AI age rather than a participant in it.
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India’s strategic autonomy narrows as US presses for alignment in Iran war
India claims strategic autonomy in the US-Israeli war on Iran. Yet its deepening defence ties with Washington point to quiet alignment. As pressure mounts for intelligence sharing and operational support, New Delhi risks entanglement in a conflict that endangers its energy security, diaspora and standing within a multipolar world.
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India’s China fixation: Wrong lessons from Strait of Hormuz
While a former Indian air marshal highlighted the need for a choke point, learning from the Iranian experience in the Strait of Hormuz, he targets the wrong force as “enemy”.
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Great irony: India-US defence pact targets China, while relying on it for tech
When military pacts meet economic captivity, both nations discover the limits of containment.
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Trump speaks to Xi in first major China-US conversation
Why Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s conversation is important for the China-US relations in the current state.
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Modi’s absence at China’s V-Day commemoration reveals inconvenient equations
What made Beijing avoid inviting Narendra Modi to China’s V-Day commemoration?
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India’s diplomatic crisis over Iran exposes West Asia balancing act’s limitations
As tensions around Iran reshape West Asia’s geopolitical landscape, India finds itself trapped between Washington, Tehran, Israel and the Gulf monarchies. The resulting diplomatic crisis is exposing the limits of New Delhi’s strategic autonomy while fuelling economic anxiety at home through rising fuel prices, shipping disruptions and mounting geopolitical pressure.
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Why China won’t intervene in US war on Iran — and why it can’t
As Washington tightens its chokehold on Iran, a familiar question returns — and reveals a deeper misunderstanding of how power actually works
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Zelenskyy’s war-time wealth: Power, patronage and shadow economy behind Kiev
If allegations against Volodymyr Zelenskyy are true, then he would sit somewhere near the lower end of the world’s ten richest individuals, between Bill Gates and Larry Page.
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India resets ties with Azerbaijan under strategic pressure, contradiction: Analysis
From rupture to recalibration, New Delhi’s outreach to Baku reveals the limits of alignment in a fractured Eurasia
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India-US trade deal tightens Washington’s grip on New Delhi
A controversial trade deal takes shape amid the Epstein files hullabaloo and before the Indian prime minister heads for Israel.
Around the world
Editorial
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India’s China fixation: Wrong lessons from Strait of Hormuz
While a former Indian air marshal highlighted the need for a choke point, learning from the Iranian experience in the Strait of Hormuz, he targets the wrong force as “enemy”.
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UNGA 2025: West recognises Palestine but betrays Palestinians
The UNGA saw the West’s Palestine recognition spree. But what’s the catch?
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Trump to Smotrich: Modi’s geopolitical volte-face
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is showing his monthly geopolitical acrobatic stunts again, this time by rapproaching the US-Israel nexus.
Opinion
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West Asia’s stability remains elusive as Iran vs US-Israel war continues
Iran–US–Israel war dynamics are escalating tensions, affecting oil markets, military strategy and the stability of the broader West Asia region.
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Why does the Chinese monster haunt the US everywhere?
Why do American officials, despite growing up, still see a monster under the bed? Why are they so scared of China?
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China-US trade meet in Stockholm may help building bridge
The recently-concluded China-US trade talks hold potentials to rebuild the bridges that Donald Trump and his predecessor had tried burning.
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