In April of 2025, terrorists linked to the Pakistani organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) perpetrated one of the heinous acts of terror against innocent civilians in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, in India. In the aftermath of the attack, India took many strategic, military and diplomatic steps to secure its national interest. One such step was the decision to place the Indus Water Treaty, 1960, in abeyance. Infographic by Eurasian Meridian For more than six decades, the Indus Water Treaty has...

In 2023, India crossed the historic milestone of having the greatest population, as it exceeded China's, and now, in 2026, the number has gone up to 1.47 billion, with headlines shouting the phrase “overpopulation.” The old colonial slurs about India’s people “breeding like rats” have started to echo, however faintly, in modern conversation nowadays. Illustration by The Geostrata With an overwhelming increase in public discomfort, an important question starts to emerge: Is India actually on...

$54 billion will be spent by the U.S. Department of Defense on autonomous warfare technology, even as it remains undecided as to what these technologies are really authorised to do. Rather, it is an operational gap being widened at the very time that speed and scale are wiping out the decision hierarchies of war. Illustration by The Geostrata With the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG) budget proposal for fiscal year 2026-27 and National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 (NSPM-11)...