New Delhi, June 30 -- As Ravi Sinha (IPS) demits office today, 30 June, as the chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), he leaves behind a two-year tenure marked by quiet actions, deep recalibration, and a deliberate reshaping of the agency's operational contours. Rather than operating within the constraints of legacy templates, Sinha expanded the very framework within which R&AW had traditionally functioned-adapting it to meet the complexities of a shifting geopolitical and threat landscape.

When the pages of history are turned back, they will narrate that at a time when India's external threats were no longer confined to borders or uniforms, Sinha's leadership was defined not by what made headlines-but by what didn't.

In March ...