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?
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
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
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 - imrahulpawaOn a single day last week, Washington approved more arms for West Asia than most nations spend on defence … Continue reading Washington Arms West Asia
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 … Continue reading Malfeasance at large
Post-war uncertainty in West Asia pose serious challenges with jostle for control of oil assets, ruling Iran with an iron fist and Bharat has its task cut out. K.A.Badarinath US President Donald J Trump’s statement on ‘ending the war’ shortly cannot be taken on its face value. Nor do the markets, stakeholders expect the war … Continue reading A Fine Balancing Act!
Uncertainty in global trade got new lease of life with US President Trump insisting on weaponising tariffs with no signs of easing down. K.A.Badarinath President Donald Trump is going bonkers. Tariffs or weapons of mass destruction, it makes no difference to him or the Republican White House that he runs. It’s with the same vigour … Continue reading Trump, Tariffs & Tumult
In a world where tariffs, export controls, and supply-chain restrictions are instruments of statecraft, Europe's new realism is simple: it isn't choosing a side; it is buying room to manoeuvre. Rahul PAWA | x - iamrahulpawa Mario Draghi sketched Europe's predicament in blunt, unsentimental terms. The economist and former Prime Minister of Italy argued that … Continue reading Europe Between US Unpredictability and Chinese Dependence
The US aggression on Venezuela and the forcible capture of President Maduro raise a serious question about the efficiency of the UN as a global watchdog. It’s time to examine whether nations, which designed the post-1945 system, still regard themselves as committed to it, or treat the UN anchored treaty-based project as optional. Rahul Pawa … Continue reading Venezuela Case & UN: Crisis of Global Institutions
Between Washington and Beijing, India Steadily Rewrites the Space Race
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