Military funding merits long-term planning

The real challenge for India is to convert resources into usable combat power
A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.
Bhabha, Cold War, nuclear technology, 1955: Dos and don’t for India in AI

No nation can afford to treat AI as only a public good. The calls for international cooperation at the summit then coexist uneasily with pursuit of national interest.
C Raja Mohan writes: Narendra Modi and Friedrich Merz are looking at ‘Indo-Europe’ to balance America and China

As Europe’s leaders prepare to deepen engagement with India, the challenge will be to give the Indo-European idea concrete meaning. The Modi-Merz talks have taken an important step in that […]
C Raja Mohan writes: In 2026, navigating a world without norms

Governments will continue to invoke the language of norms but employ it selectively and inconsistently. India is no exception
The age of militarised middle powers is here

For India, this militarisation by the erstwhile pacifist middle powers is a clear validation of its own tried and tested grand strategy.