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Forging the Next Wave of AI Innovation

U.S. leadership in frontier AI research, combined with India’s talent pool, creates powerful opportunities to develop solutions for global challenges. By Giriraj Agarwal, SPAN Magazine, U.S. Embassy New Delhi In February 2026, researchers and practitioners from the United States and...

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Op-Ed: Turning Research into Real-World Solutions

The IIT Kanpur-NYU Tandon School of Engineering partnership shows how joint research in emerging technologies is moving from lab to deployment while strengthening U.S.-India collaboration. By Zahoor Hussain Bhat, SPAN Magazine, U.S. Embassy New Delhi As universities deepen cooperation in...

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Op-Ed: Securing the Digital Lifelines of Global Connectivity

As subsea cables power the modern digital world, the United States is working with partners including India to secure these vital networks and strengthen connectivity across the Indo-Pacific. By Giriraj Agarwal, SPAN Magazine, U.S. Embassy New Delhi Beneath the vast...

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Why India Must be Actively Involved in Iran Peace Process

As others step in, New Delhi’s silence raises hard questions about leadership, interests and timing Indian Interest by Shobhan SaxenaThere is a rare disquiet in India’s strategic discourse. The immediate trigger is uncomfortable: Pakistan appearing to take the lead in...

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The Return of the Rotor: Are Gyroplanes Poised for a Global Comeback?

By Vijay Singh Aviation Correspondent It’s a bird; it’s a plane; but to a growing community of flight enthusiasts, it’s something far more intriguing. The gyroplane—a machine that looks like a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft—is experiencing...

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Op-Ed: Are We Already Living Through a Third World War?

From the Middle East to Eastern Europe and beyond, a web of conflicts is raising an unsettling question about the nature of global war today Indian Interest by Shobhan SaxenaThe ongoing war in Iran is no longer a contained regional...

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Op-Ed: Not an Era of War, Nor an Era of Diplomacy

Indian Interest by Shobhan Saxena There was a time when the phrase “not an era of war” — invoked memorably by Prime Minister Narendra Modi — carried within it a moral aspiration: that global conflicts, however deep, would ultimately yield...

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Book Review – Vinegar and Honey for Perfect Harmony by Nupur M. Sandhu

In a world saturated with relationship advice that often feels either too clinical or too "fairy-tale," psychotherapist and psycho-neurobics research scholar Nupur M. Sandhu offers a refreshing, grounded alternative. Her latest book, Vinegar and Honey for Perfect Harmony, is less...