The standard assessment of state-sponsored cyber intrusion targeting the Indian system sees such actions as an attempt of sabotage of critical infrastructure – a compromised load dispatch center, an attacked port authority, a power grid being put offline. Applying this approach to the case of Digital Public Infrastructure of India is not only wrong, but…

Since late 2023, millions of Afghans have been deported from Iran and Pakistan despite holding documents that had long permitted them to live and work, yet both governments describe the removals as nothing more than routine immigration enforcement. The mass displacement of Afghans has created not just  a humanitarian crisis but a fertile recruiting ground…

The conventional analysis of IP theft understands it to be an act of commercial criminality – a renegade engineer, a bribed supplier, a patent casually dismantled in a laboratory in Shenzhen. The application of this diagnosis to India-China relations is not only incomplete, but actively counterproductive, in that it confuses a strategy with a category…

In the early weeks of 2026, before the war between Iran and the United States broke out, a reputed news outlet hosted two well-placed Indian commentators, one of whom volunteered the view that he does not see Chabahar port shutting down at all. He argued if any port was going to decline, a view the…