Private firms are beginning to carry weight the state cannot. In May, Skyroot became India’s first space unicorn, valued at $1.1 billion. The ecosystem counts over 300 startups and …
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Brijesh Singh
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The butcherbird sings with beguiling charm, its melody masking predation. Innocence cloaks a hunter’s intent as dusk settles. Each note of the shrike lures, each silence sharpens. Beneath …
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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 architecture of AI …
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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 nuclear diplomacy, where men …
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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 …
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In the summer of 2016, a 28-year-old software engineer in Bangalore walked through Cubbon Park with his phone held high, chasing a virtual Pikachu. He did not know, …
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The long game is to wrench every sign of civilisational continuity from India and attribute it to foreign sources, however speculative. The pattern is two centuries old. In May …
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BRICS vs Bretton Woods is about a gradual reconfiguration of world financial architecture
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 metamorphosis is …
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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 Lyng, a Norwegian …
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to the podium in Hyderabad on a Sunday evening in May, what he said carried the weight of a wartime address. He …
