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The big AI race: Where does India truly stand?
India trails the US, China and the EU in AI investment and frontier models, but is rapidly building sovereign compute, data centres and indigenous capability.
BrahMos: The battle-tested missile behind India’s growing global influence
The rise of BrahMos is the story of how sustained investment, indigenous production and operational success combined to create one of India's most valuable strategic assets.
Sanskrit: Language that covers Cosmos to Computation
Beyond classical language, Sanskrit is a system of precision, structure, and knowledge. Its ideas connect spirituality, human cognition, and emerging technologies in remarkable ways.
Can India become the world’s cleanest ship recycler too?
India leads global ship recycling at 35.4% market share. Can it also prove to be cleanest and the safest ship recycler to maintain dominance?
Judiciary Asserts Again: No Reservation After Conversion
Religious conversion to Christianity or Islam ends reservation benefits. If conversion erases caste discrimination, how can the caste identity survive for claiming constitutional reservation?
Foreign funds widening domestic faultlines? Is that why India is reimagining FCRA?
The debate around FCRA is no longer ‘NGOs versus Government’. It’s about how a nation safeguards its sovereignty when funding casts greater influence than force.
The Big Fertility Gap Story: What Examples from Different States Tell
The fertility gap between Hindus and Muslims often evokes heated debate with political overtones. Here is an apolitical and data-backed look at the issue.
State Repression: Pakistan’s tool to control occupied regions
Two regions: Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan. Seven decades. One pattern: promises made, then broken. Know more about Pakistan’s use of force to answer peaceful questions there.
Coal Gasification: A Time-Tested Answer to a Modern Crisis
Coal gasification is a centuries-old technology gaining a renewed relevance in an era of energy insecurity and geopolitical uncertainty. For India, it opens vast opportunities.
What is ‘Operation Kalanemi’ safeguarding ‘Devbhoomi’ Uttarakhand from?
Call it a model of cultural preservation, or a security-oriented governance strategy or a controversial experiment in state policy, Uttarakhand's initiatives including ‘Operation Kalanemi’ are likely to shape debates beyond its borders.
Ayushman Bharat: What the NFHS data reveals
Out-of-pocket healthcare costs have long pushed poor, rural, and marginalized Indian families into poverty. PM-JAY seeks to offer cashless treatment to the bottom 40%.
Birthing by the Clock: What is the BTS of increased C-section births in India?
India has successfully brought more women into hospitals for childbirth, but the rapid rise of C-sections, especially in private hospitals, raises important questions about whether childbirth is increasingly being shaped by medical necessity, market forces, and social pressures rather than clinical need.