Tag: India

The report does three things. It maps the market and policy drivers of the boom, including domestic demand, the GCC ecosystem, infrastructure status for data centers above 5 MW, a twenty-year tax holiday for foreign hyperscalers exporting their services, state-level incentive packages, and a dense maze of data localization rules. It then conducts a cost-benefit analysis that questions the dominant claims of technological sovereignty and broad economic gain. Finally, it argues that India must shift from investment facilitation to negotiated extraction, and lays out the concrete templates the government can put on the table: compute for academia, applied R&D testbeds, regional tech clusters, AI-based public service delivery, and a structured renewables and storage push.

Operation Sindoor transformed India’s military doctrine and showcased the Indian Navy’s significant maritime strength.

A future crisis with Pakistan must be treated as part of a wider collusive challenge

India’s ability to impose punishment on Pakistan was made clear by the military operation. It must convert that into a durable structure of deterrence

A peculiar feature of the Indian security state is the frequency with which failures to anticipate enemy action are explained away as ‘intelligence gaps or failures’. 

The lesson is straightforward. In foreign policy, there is no substitute for nurturing trusted partnerships even while seeking new opportunities