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Growing Cyber Risks to Energy Infrastructure

Cyber-related risks to the energy sector can be minimised by strategic intelligence gathering on potential threat actors Debopama Bhattacharya The US fuel pipeline operator, Colonial Pipeline, was hit by a cyber-attack on May 9 which led to the shutdown of...

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Generality of Kautilyan Tenets Informed by Unique Indianness

From the spiritualism of Sankhya to the materialism of Lokayat, philosophy in Kautilya’s Arthashastra taught the ruler to not only think rationally but also act rationally Kajari Kamal Kautilya’s Arthashastra is, perhaps, the quintessential treatise on ancient Indian statecraft. Its...

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Who really owns India’s Covid disaster?

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media “As in so many of the pandemic’s worst-hit countries, this tragedy was avoidable — and is largely the fault of a boastful and incompetent government. Yet, judging by the fate...

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The Rihanna tweet and how we reacted

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media  “In a globally connected world we will have opinions on everything from Donald Trump to Black Lives Matter to the coup in Myanmar, and yes, the farmers’ protests in India....

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India, Russia and the Indo-Pacific: A Search for Congruence

India and Russia’s divergent outlooks appear to stem from the latter’s rejection of the Indo-Pacific construct in favour of Asia-Pacific  Rajorshi Roy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent uncharacteristic statement of “India being an object of the Western countries persistent,...

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The US after the “American carnage”

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media  “After the American carnage: New US President Joe Biden will need to heal and rebuild on so many fronts Democracy has indeed won – but barely. The violent insurrection by...