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South Asian Talent Almost Everywhere; Missing is an AI Invention from the Region the World Depends on

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- It was a warm, cloudless afternoon, the kind San Francisco saves for early autumn. The Ferry Building tower clock, which has kept time over the waterfront since 1898, chimed as I... Read More


Air Power and National Security: Strategic Choices that the Indian Air Force Needs to Make

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh, who superannuates at the end of October, flew his last fighter-jet sortie on an indigenous LCA (Light Combat Aircr... Read More


Nonalignment and Strategic Autonomy Unworkable for Small States: 'India First' Policy a Strategic Necessity for Sri Lanka

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Global politics is moving in an increasingly unpredictable direction, unlike anything witnessed in recent decades. What the Institute for Economics and Peace has described as an ... Read More


Rethinking Climate Security in South Asia - Through AI

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- South Asia is one of the most climate-sensitive regions in the world. The devastating floods in Feni, Bangladesh, in 2024, the deadly floods in India's Assam this year, and the s... Read More


Where Is India's Apple? A Nation's Strategic Independence is Directly Proportional to its Economic Independence

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- India does not lack brilliant engineers. It lacks the products that carry their brilliance to the world. Not one of the technologies that define modern life, the iPhone, Nvidia's... Read More


When a Migrant Worker Suffers Injury Abroad: A Shared Information Support System Regionally Will Help Returnees

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- A flight home may not always be for a holiday. It can often bring back an injured worker, away from the employer, insurer and office, in the Gulf countries, Africa or elsewhere, ... Read More


Pakistan's Hangor-Class Fires Its First Missile. Can It Shift the Maritime Balance in South Asia?

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Pakistan's first Hangor-class submarine has crossed an important threshold by moving from acquisition and induction toward operational use. On September 27, PNS/M Hangor conducte... Read More


Transnational Education: Making International Skills Development Inclusive

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Beyond the foreign university model, transnational education, or TNE, is generally understood as education delivered in a country other than the country in which the awarding ins... Read More


India Strategically Transforming Bay of Bengal Islands Into a Major Trade, Logistics and Military Hub

Fiji, Oct. 12 -- The Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands, one of India's numerous island territories, is an archipelago actually comprising 836 islands, islets, and rocky outcrops, historically generali... Read More


China's Open-Source AI Initiative and the Limits of BRICS Consensus

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Competition among major powers over artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significance in recent years. The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026, demon... Read More