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Indigenisation – In Need of Policy Framework

Amit Cowshish India has been striving for indigenisation of defence production for close to three decades. To give impetus to the efforts, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had constituted a committee in the early 1990s under Prof APJ Abdul Kalam....

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Testing Times for Democracy in Nepal

Prime Minister Oli has been one of the most influential Chairman of the UML since July 2014. He has also been the most powerful prime minister in the post-constitution period Nihar R Nayak The President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari,...

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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....