India is undertaking maritime reforms and signing major trade deals, but Maritime Vision 2047 will not be resilient if seafarers remain exposed to exploitation, isolation, and abandonment risks. #maritime Read more »
Trump’s strategic doctrine pares back US soft power and reasserts hard power, reshaping American influence from Caracas to Greenland. Read more »
As India’s religious footfalls now match city-scale crowds, crowd safety planning must move from threat-centric optics to resilience-first design rooted in crowd science. #crowd #safety Read more »
The US under Donald Trump is prepared to dismantle international law and institutions that once constrained American power. Read more »
Tariff coercion, fiscal strain, and sanctions risk are reviving de-dollarisation efforts; a plural currency system likely as no clear successor exists. #dedollarisation #tradewar Read more »
Bengaluru Metro fares are not the decisive lever many policymakers assume; last-mile reliability decides commuter choices. Read more »
The country has rushed to embrace artificial intelligence. Its impacts on jobs, the electrical grid and water availability need to be taken into account. Read more »
The India-EU FTA will deliver only if India fixes the unglamorous plumbing of trade: interoperable, legally valid paperless processes across borders. #India-EUFTA #FTA #trade Read more »
Melting ice is opening new shipping routes and resource frontiers, turning the Arctic and Greenland into focal points of great-power competition. Read more »
India’s urban present and future are being strangled not by lack of ambition, but by the collapse of municipal finance, accountability and autonomy. #MunicipalFinance #governance Read more »