Category: Analysis
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The Fault Lines of BRICS: A House Divided Against Itself
BRICS has the numbers to resemble a new pole of global power: nearly 40% of world GDP, almost half the world’s population, and three major powers at its core. But beneath the summit photographs lies a deeply divided bloc, strained by the India-China border dispute, Gulf rivalries, the Iran question, the Nile dam conflict, and…
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Pax Indica : The Golden Ages of India and the World That Came to Her Shores
For centuries, India was not a peripheral land on the edge of the world economy but its center – home to vast trade networks, world-class learning, and a reputation for wealth so enduring that scholars, merchants, and refugees kept arriving from every direction. This is the story of how a subcontinent once produced a quarter…
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The Architecture of Agreement: The Art, Concepts, and Patterns of Negotiation
Negotiation is far more than bargaining over price -it is the disciplined process of understanding interests, evaluating alternatives, and creating agreements that leave both sides better off. Drawing on decades of research from Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and leading scholars such as Roger Fisher, William Ury, Margaret Neale, and Deepak…
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Chanakya’s Spycraft
Kautilya, known as Chanakya, established the first formal intelligence service in ancient India through his treatise, the Arthashastra. It outlined a comprehensive espionage system consisting of nine types of spies, loyalty tests, and covert operations. His methods emphasized systematic information gathering and verification, influencing modern intelligence strategies.
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Not Only Hindu, Not Only Indian: Caste and Caste-Like Hierarchy Across Religions and Continents
The discussion of caste in India is often framed as an exclusively Hindu theological phenomenon. However, a deeper look at the comparative record reveals that hereditary status hierarchies -complete with endogamy, occupational stigma, and social exclusion – persist independently among South Asian Muslims and Christians, whose founding doctrines explicitly reject them. From the Pasmanda movements…
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The School Room They Didn’t Tell You About: Caste and Colonial-Era Indigenous Education
Was pre-colonial Indian education really a Brahmin monopoly? The popular claim crumbles against the evidence. William Adam’s 1835-38 surveys and the Madras Presidency’s district returns reveal something far more complicated: in early 19th-century Bengal, Bihar, and the Madras Presidency, non-Brahmin and Shudra students frequently formed the outright majority in vernacular schools. Yet higher learning remained…
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The Fracture Point: How the 2026 Iran War Broke the Old World Order
The Fracture Point: How the 2026 Iran War Broke the Old World Order Global Order in Transition · West Asia · 2026 The Fracture Point How the 2026 Iran War Broke the Old World Order Multipolarity, Hormuz, and the End of American Certainty By Tarun Goyal · Long Read No treaty was signed to end…
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The 480-Year War: Hindu India’s Epic Resistance to Islamic Invasion
For decades, standard historical narratives systematically minimized the 480-year Hindu resistance to medieval invasions. This feature restores what was stolen, chronicling the fierce, intelligent alliances of warrior-kings who held back the tide for nearly five centuries to protect the core of Dharmic civilization.