Our problem is not that the world is changing too fast, but that we are unwilling to look outside, beyond our comfrot zones.
When the order shifts, as it is today, we seem to hold on to yesterday's certainties baked in the familiar logic of nonalignment, avoiding looking hard at today, making our tomorrow unprepared.
Some of this problem is sociological.
Our strategic community is, for most purposes, small and closed, built rather like an agraharam. You get much of it through lineage. You are taken seriously because of where you served or whose student you were or simply who you know. What we produce as stratrgic analysis is largely commentary, and then commentary on the initial commentary, and a commentary on the commentary on the commentary. In the end we lose track of whose commentary we are tracking.
Because very few have the incentive to disturb the categories we inherited.
Look at what we actually know about the world. Pakistan, China, America (even that is doubtful, I would say). After that we struggle.
Nine million Indians live in the Gulf and I cannot point you to much serious Indian scholarship on Gulf's domestic politics. Latin America, the Sahel, Central Asia, party systems in Southeast Asia: Absent.
We can chat for hours on end about the whole world but study a small corner of it. Know even less.
Our scholarship has become narrow in what we study and narrow in whom we argue with. More worryingly, we happily settle our disagreements by consensus among ourselves (based on an invisible/visible hierarchy) rather than against anything that could prove our understanding of the world wrong. Consenses makes for good democracy, not wisdom.
A state that only wants just enough security can perhaps live like this indefinitely. But a country that wants to be more than that cannot, I guess.
The temptation to stay, look and analyse inward perhaps comes from being big. Size lets us mistake our own reflection for the world - rethinkign happens slowly.
The world is changing whether we like it or not. So it is time to, as K. Subrahmanyam said, shed our shibboleths and see the world for what it is!
Le Président Trump a signé ce soir à Versailles l’accord entre l’Iran et les États-Unis.
Cet accord ouvre la voie à une paix durable et permet la réouverture du détroit d’Ormuz.
C’est un pas important dans la bonne direction pour nos compatriotes qui permettra d’obtenir bientôt une baisse des prix de l’énergie.
Show me, One "Right Wing Political Leader" from "Global South" among "1
billion people" "that too is democracy" "ruling in civilizational State."
Such a dreamy achievement.
One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity!
Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals.
While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today.
From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳
#PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage
In this paper shared by her, the author says that the seal shows wild animals, and as per Atharvaveda 11.2.9, it becomes clear that 'Paśupati' does not protect wild animals. Hence, there's no Vedic connection.
But there are these problems.
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@priyankchn The same I'm saying from last 4 years: Bengal Victory isn't typical like any state elections. It has been land of ideological battle and intellectual supremacy. If Bengal gone thn fort of Commies bankruptcy is gone. Ancients are rising. EAST INDIA will write a new chapter now.
Writers & actors built careers on propaganda, and the industry stayed quiet like cats. Now the same clan mock Dhurandhar. You don’t get to call yourself liberal if your first instinct is to Mock.
Don’t know when truth started getting labeled as propaganda...... strange times.
COMING TO THE POINT.....
I want to tell @AdityaDharFilms & @RanveerOfficial yeh kaala drishti aise nahi jaayega... Muthi bhar ke laal mirch se kaam nahi chalega.... poora khet jalana padega 🔥
Watched #Dhurandhar2TheRevenge last night.... Outstanding film 🙏
Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.
Characteristics of Neo-Ambedkarite so-called intellectuals:
– Zero efforts to obviate discrimination
– Prove Buddhism is a social order against Hinduism
– These ppl are mentally malnourished
– No sense of belongings
– Political unaware
– want to engage a direct fight with GC
USA can cross the limit, in case of iran, and it's scary !
They'll cross coz
• Iran is a big hurdle for Isreal
• To prevent self-proclaimed nuclear proliferation
• Keeping the focus on the Indo-Pacific
• To reduce dependence on Pakistan