India’s Invisible Defence Gap: It Is Not Software, It Is Heat
Article by Dr Sudhanshu Kumar If you ask me what the single most underappreciated bottleneck in India’s AI defence ambitions is in 2026, I would not say compute. I would Continue Reading
How India’s Defence-Tech Startups Are Rewriting the Rules of War
Article by Dr Sudhanshu Kumar At approximately 4 PM one afternoon in early May 2025, a message landed at a defence-tech startup. Brief. Firm. Laced with urgency. The request was Continue Reading
Speed, Sovereignty, and the Scramjet India Already Built
Article by Sudhanshu Kumar In January 2026, engineers at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) in Hyderabad made history. A full-scale ground test of the scramjet engine ran successfully Continue Reading
India is Already at War: Defence Begins at the Desktop
Article by Sudhanshu Kumar When the Attack Has No Uniform Picture a quiet Tuesday morning at a defence establishment in New Delhi. No sirens. No soldiers at the gate are Continue Reading
The US Retreats from the Global AI Governance Table
Article by Dr Megha Shrivastava and Sudhanshu Kumar We have seen for years that Washington has tried to convince the world that it would set the guardrails for Artificial Intelligence Continue Reading
Farming, Firewalls, and Fighter Drones: The Full Story of Why India and Israel Belong Together
Article by Sudhanshu Kumar Let me begin with something that often gets lost in the noise surrounding high-level diplomatic visits. Foreign policy engagements of this nature, bilateral summits, state visits, Continue Reading
The Indian Republic at 77: Technology as the New Language of Independence
Article by Sudhanshu Kumar On every Republic Day, we look back at how far we have come as a nation. This year, as India marks its 77th Republic Day, we Continue Reading
India’s Bangladesh Crisis: Defending Against AI Weaponization and Digital Ghosts in South Asia
Article by Sudhanshu Kumar A Digital Phantom Haunts South Asia History teaches us that information warfare evolves with technology, but its objectives remain constant: to confuse, divide, and delegitimise. What Continue Reading
Building Digital Empires: Is the US Losing Ground to China in the Data Infrastructure Race?
Article by Mrityunjay Goswami and Sudhanshu Kumar In July 2025, the Trump Administration introduced two transformational executive orders under the “America’s AI Action Plan” to cement US dominance in artificial Continue Reading
The Role of MSMEs in India’s Defence Sector: Driving Self-Reliance and Technological Innovation
A country’s defence architecture cannot be completed without the involvement of different enterprises in its functioning, especially without the help of its innovative enterprises. India’s defence sector also takes the Continue Reading