New government in Kathmandu must fully use the opportunity to prove its worth and put country on a different path to prosperity. K.A.Badarinath Himalayan Hindu Kingdom, Nepal is in the midst of a big churn with most established political parties and their leaders getting irrelevant. After Balendra ‘Balen’ Shah of fledgling Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) … Continue reading Let’s Reunite For Shared Prosperity
Beijing has spent decades trying to claim a land it has never governed, never administered, and never convinced the world is its own. The infatuation tells us less about Arunachal Pradesh and more about the insecurities driving Chinese foreign policy. Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa The flight to Tokyo was supposed to be the easy … Continue reading China’s Infatuation with India’s Arunachal Pradesh
The Transnational Institute (TNI) report, “Hindutva as a Global Far-Right Project” (Shayan Shaukat, 2026), represents a quintessential exercise in Polemical Historiography. It is a document that uses the veneer of academic/scholarly inquiry to pursue a pre-determined political objective, failing the fundamental tests of Mechanism Demand and Inferential Necessity. By imposing Western socio-political categories - specifically … Continue reading Reheating the “Fascist” Leftovers: A Methodological Deconstruction of the TNI “Global Far-Right” Narrative
In Pakistan's largest province, Baloch families no longer ask only whether their loved ones will come home. They ask whether they will return alive, broken, or as a body left by the roadside.Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa In Balochistan, disappearance has become more than an allegation. It has become a method of rule, a language … Continue reading Balochistan’s Disappeared: Inside Pakistan’s Kill-and-Dump Campaign
Freedom House's Western Biases, Methodological Flaws & Lack of Understanding of India's Democratic Realities N. C. Bipindra American think tank Freedom House's latest 2026 annual report rates India as "Partly Free" with a score of 62 on maximum 100 points. This has once again triggered a debate on how global democracy indexes assess nations, particularly … Continue reading Bias or Blind Spot?
No foreign blueprints. No borrowed reactor. No licensed hull. India built its third nuclear-powered submarine from scratch.Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa The commissioning of INS Aridhaman on 3 April 2026 completes a threshold that India's strategic community has been working toward for the better part of three decades. With three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines … Continue reading INS Aridaman: Designed, Built and Armed at Home
Vivek Raina The partnership between Japan and India has developed into a key component of modern Indo-Pacific geopolitics, signifying a change from an economic partnership to a full strategic alignment. This collaboration, which is based on a commitment to a rules-based system, mutual trust and shared democratic principles, is now crucial in tackling new regional … Continue reading From Vision to Strategy: India-Japan Advancing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Intelligence warnings are flashing red. The arrests are piling up. Pakistan does not need a reason to export terror to India. It needs an opportunity. And right now, with West Asia in open conflict, Pakistan's deep state believes it has exactly that.Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa Every major world crisis has provided Pakistan's terror … Continue reading Pakistan May Use Iran as a Smokescreen to Spread Terror in India
With the enactment of Bill C-9 (Combatting Hate Act), Canada's legislative stance on hate speech, extremist iconography and religious space protection underwent an important change. The law establishes penalties for intimidation at religious institutions motivated by hatred and makes it illegal to publicly display insignia associated with terrorist groups. The law is both a chance … Continue reading Canada’s Bill C-9 and Its Implications for Hindus and Khalistani Extremism
Three places will signal when this war evolves: the Strait of Hormuz, Kharg Island, and the hills above southern Lebanon. Everything else is noise. Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa There is a particular kind of tension that settles over a theatre of war when everything is in place and nothing has yet happened. It … Continue reading Washington’s Narrowest Gamble: A Seizure, Not an Invasion
CIHS - Centre for Integrated and Holistic Studies 