World Politics

40% of global maritime commerce and 35% of seaborne oil transit the Indian Ocean. How China, the US, and India are contesting its future.

India went from the world's biggest arms importer to exporting over $2.5 billion a year. The rise of its defence industry — and how internal demand built it.

Five years after Galwan killed 20 Indian soldiers, the LAC is stable but unresolved — buffer zones, not peace. Normalisation means management, not settlement.

BRICS expanded to challenge Western financial dominance — but without shared interests it became a forum for grievances. India: architect turned balancer.

US tariffs on Indian goods went 26% to 50% to 18% between April 2025 and February 2026. Where India's real opening lies amid the chaos.

Brent hit $107.97 on March 8 as the Iran war choked the Strait of Hormuz. India imports 89% of its oil; every $10 rise costs roughly $17-18 billion a year.

Criticism of Indian democracy is legitimate — and selective: Western indices, Xinjiang silence, Bangladesh. Scrutiny follows alignment, not principle.

300 million practice yoga, turmeric lattes sell in Brooklyn, RRR won an Oscar — and nobody in Delhi planned any of it. India's unplanned soft power wave.

India graduates 1.5 million engineers a year; America can't hire enough AI talent. Neither has a corridor strategy — and the cost runs into trillions.

Oil at $110, China's demographic collapse, the India-US AI talent corridor, an unplanned soft power moment, and why the rupee at 87 is not the real problem.

China's population fell for a fourth straight year in 2025, births hit a record low, youth unemployment sits near 17%, and the property sector is unwinding.

Nurse Maria Sevilla's visa was refused because of her autistic son Tyrone's healthcare costs — and her Change.org petition gathered 123,000+ signatures.

In January 2015, US Attorney Preet Bharara announced corruption charges against New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — one of Albany's most powerful men.

Germany's CSU party proposed that immigrants 'should be obliged' to speak German at home — then, after nationwide mockery, rewrote the demand within days.

In 2014, a 22-member team of Vedic Brahmins from Karnataka performed yagnas in Oman for the health of Sultan Qaboos — one of the most unusual interfaith

Samantha Lewthwaite went from the widow of a 7/7 bomber to one of the world's most wanted terrorism suspects. TI's 2014 profile, reviewed as an archive.

In August 2013, the NSA admitted analysts had spied on their own love interests using agency tools — the internal nickname was LOVEINT.

At the African First Ladies Summit in Tanzania, Michelle Obama joked with Laura Bush that living in the White House has 'prison elements' — but it's a

The killing of Fr. François Murad in Syria went viral with a beheading video. Later investigations showed the video showed different victims entirely.