Bias or Blind Spot?
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…
INS Aridaman: Designed, Built and Armed at Home
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…
From Vision to Strategy: India-Japan Advancing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
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…
Pakistan May Use Iran as a Smokescreen to Spread Terror in India
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…
Canada’s Bill C-9 and Its Implications for Hindus and Khalistani Extremism
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…
Washington’s Narrowest Gamble: A Seizure, Not an Invasion
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…
Recurring Bailouts Expose Flaws in Pakistan’s Economic Framework
By N. C. Bipindra Pakistan’s economic crises have unfolded with a familiar pattern for decades. It emerges from a balance-of-payments shortfall with foreign exchange reserves dwindling and its government running for emergency support from friendly capitals and multilateral lenders. As temporary relief arrives and the immediate crisis subsides, it has never led to any meaningful…
Washington Arms West Asia
A single-day $23.5 billion approval marks the largest concentrated U.S. arms sale commitment to the West Asia since the 1990-91 coalition build-up, a direct counter to Iranian attacks on regional energy infrastructure. Rahul PAWA | x – imrahulpawa On a single day last week, Washington approved more arms for West Asia than most nations spend…
Malfeasance at large
USCIRF worked to puncture US interests by framing its strategic ally Bharat as a country of particular concern and recommend ban on RSS, RAW. What’s the hidden agenda? K.A.Badarinath Why doesn’t US President Donald J Trump wind up the pugnacious and toxic organization US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that worked against American…
Pakistan Bombed a Rehab Hospital. It Is a War Crime.
Islamabad called it a military target. International humanitarian law calls it a protected facility. The evidence supports one of those positions. Rahul PAWA | x – imrahulpawa At approximately 9 p.m. on 16 March 2026, an airstrike hit the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation facility near the city’s international airport,…
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