Ananta Insights | A Year of Operation Sindoor by Ambassador Sharat Sabharwal | May 2026
Operation Sindoor, launched by India in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack and subsequently paused but not called off, has completed a year. It is, therefore, time to appraise its impact on the ground, the lessons learnt by India and the current state of play. Impact on the ground and lessons learnt Pakistan […]
Ananta Insights | A Geopolitical History of Persian Gulf | Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev | May 2026
The global attention is currently riveted on the current double impasse over the Persian Gulf at its Strait of Hormuz choke point. Although the ongoing US-Iran conflict has its unique drivers and context, the Persian Gulf has a five-millennia-long history of geopolitical jostling among the concerned stakeholders, including the first Western capture of the Strait […]
Southern Currents
Southern Currents Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday described India as a “democratic brother of the Global South” and set an ambitious target of raising bilateral trade to $30 billion Introduction Welcome to the first edition of Southern Currents, Ananta’s newsletter on the India-Latin America relationship. The months covered in this edition […]
The Command Chain
The Command Chain As geopolitical tensions mount, ongoing global conflicts have cradled battlefield innovation. Ananta’s Command Chain reviews the security and defence-centric developments that are shaping warfare’s evolution. In this edition we analyse the evolution of strategic nuclear weapons and their role in conflict dynamics, how Weapons Systems Officers (WSO) will retain their place in […]
Tech Tactics
Tech Tactics As nations vie for supremacy in critical and emerging technologies, geopolitics and high-tech innovations intersect to shape global dynamics. Technological advances, from artificial intelligence (AI) to space exploration, not only revolutionise industries but also redefine global power and strategic alliances. This edition explores how Indian earth observation startups are positioned, the global hunt […]