India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Need for Review, Not Revision

26 Sep 2026

Context: India’s nuclear doctrine has remained broadly unchanged for over two decades, while the strategic environment has changed significantly due to China’s military rise, Pakistan’s evolving nuclear posture, emerging technologies and multipolar g...

AI as a Great-Power Competition: Strategic Choices for India

23 Sep 2026

Context: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a domain of economic, technological and strategic competition, particularly between the United States and China.Recent US–China discussions indicate that AI is moving beyond technology an...

AI-Powered Wearables: Innovation versus Privacy

23 Sep 2026

Context: The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered wearables such as smart glasses, AI pins and voice-recording devices is being promoted as a possible successor to smartphones.However, their ability to continuously see, hear and interpre...

AI GOVERNANCE: NEED FOR HARD LAWS AND STRONG GUARDRAILS

18 Sep 2026

Context: An Anthropic threat-intelligence report covering December 2025–August 2026 documented multiple categories of artificial intelligence (AI) misuse, highlighting the growing sophistication and scale of AI-enabled harm.Call for Slowdown: Anthrop...

How AI Risks Can Outpace Safeguards

16 Sep 2026

Context: Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies increasingly rely on self-regulation and automated safeguards to prevent misuse of powerful models.However, safeguards may detect harmful activity only after sufficient behavioural patterns emerge, crea...

Terror’s Changing Face and India’s Counter-Terror Strategy

14 Sep 2026

Context: The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, carried out by al-Qaeda, fundamentally transformed global counter-terrorism strategies.Over the past 25 years, terrorism has evolved in its organisational structure, instruments, targe...

AI Governance Architecture Must Include Emerging Economies

12 Sep 2026

Context: The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating risks that cross national borders and traditional sectoral boundaries, affecting finance, labour, elections, healthcare, climate and national sovereignty.The growing use of AI i...

Claude’s ‘Thought Process’ and the AI Consciousness Debate

07 Sep 2026

Context: Recent research by Anthropic on its large language model (LLM) Claude Sonnet 4.5 has identified internal neural patterns that appear to correspond to concepts related to its eventual outputs. While this may resemble an internal thought proce...

OpenAI’s Astra Model: AI Autonomy and Emerging Cybersecurity Risks

05 Sep 2026

Context: OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI) model claiming improvements in computer use, coding, long-running tasks and cybersecurity.Astra is the first OpenAI system classified as having crossed the company’...

Why Regulators Are Tightening the Cybersecurity Net Around India’s Financial Sector

31 Aug 2026

Context: The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasing the scale and sophistication of cyber fraud, prompting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to strengthen cybersecurity oversight.Eme...