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Yashwant Singh

Yashwant Singh

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India’s Innovation Gap and the Rise of Sovereign AI

India’s Innovation Gap and the Rise of Sovereign AI

For three decades, India has been celebrated as an emerging technological power. It has one of the world’s largest pools of engineers, a globally...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yashwant Singh

What India Might Learn from Israel’s Involuntary Urbanism

What India Might Learn from Israel’s Involuntary Urbanism

Most comparative analyses begin in the wrong place. They ask: what has Israel built that India should copy? Drip irrigation. Iron Dome. Mossad. The...

18.06.2026 40

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The Sultan’s Algorithm

The Sultan’s Algorithm

Turkey, Transnational Illiberalism, and the Poverty of Our Political Vocabulary There is a particular kind of danger that arrives not as an army but...

11.06.2026 60

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Shivaji in Israel and the Return of Civilizational Time

A statue isn’t merely a decoration or a tribute, it’s a claim about what history means. When Rome erected statues of conquered kings, it was...

09.06.2026 60

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The Seal and the River of Time

A Meditation on the Pashupati Seal, the Indian Civilizational Continuum, and What Humanity Owes to the Clay’s Memory The Undeciphered Witness There...

07.06.2026 80

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Beyond Patronage: The People as Custodians of the Nation

Partha Chatterjee’s political society, Hindu democratic agency, and the West Bengal verdict of 2026 The Framework and Its Horizon For more than two...

02.06.2026 70

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The Indispensable Dyad: India, Israel, and the Architecture of Durable Order

India-Israel bilateral partnership constitutes the dyad around which any genuinely wartime-resilient Eurasian economic corridor must organize. This is...

01.06.2026 60

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Gaay, Gayatri, Gita

On the Sanctity of the Cow and the Grammar of Civilizational Love Before philosophy, there was milk. Before the child could receive the Gayatri...

24.05.2026 70

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The Great Nicobar Project and India’s Return to Itself

The longue durée of Indo-maritime stewardship – where the Mauryan embrace of statecraft, the Chola command of the Indian Ocean, and the Srivijayan...

22.05.2026 70

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Bhojshala: The Living Wound of Indian Memory

On a Monument That Is Also a Civilization’s Unfinished Argument With Itself “Yā Kundendutusārahāradhavalā, yā śubhravastrāvṛtā.” She...

17.05.2026 70

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The Ideological Tax on India-Israel Innovation

India and Israel make an improbable pair on paper: one a 1.4 billion-strong continental democracy navigating strategic autonomy, the other a small,...

27.04.2026 70

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The Grammar of Grief: Towards a Philosophical and Cultural Analysis

On mourning as the organizing intelligence of a civilization, and what is lost when a culture makes lamentation its highest art Every civilization...

07.04.2026 70

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Crisis in the Middle-East: India a Civilizational Witness, Not a Bystander

Why the world’s most plurally constituted civilization has a moral and strategic obligation to interrupt the Middle East’s amnesia, and why its...

01.04.2026 80

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The Postcolonial Materialism Trap and the Limits of Non-Western IR Theory

This essay argues that India’s analytical under-engagement with the ideological dimensions of Iranian statecraft is not a policy failure but a...

26.03.2026 90

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AI Has Its Einstein Moment. It’s Missing Everything That Came After

AI’s risks are clear, but no institutions exist to act on them. Warnings alone cannot steer a technology this powerful. In 1939, Albert Einstein...

18.03.2026 80

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Beyond Israel-Palestine: The Iran Factor in India’s De-Hyphenated West Asia Policy

As the region’s fault lines shift decisively from an Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an Israeli-Iranian confrontation, and India’s strategic...

07.03.2026 100

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India-Israel Strategic Convergence: The Quiet Axis Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

A Partnership Taking Shape in a Polarized World The most consequential geopolitical partnership of the coming decade will not be announced with...

26.02.2026 100

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Yashwant singh