Major General Dilawar Singh

Articles by Major General Dilawar Singh

Maj Gen Dr Dilawar Singh (Retd) is a Ph.D. and policy expert with 40+ years of experience in military affairs and counter-terrorism. Former National DG in the Govt of India, he serves as Senior VP of the Global Economist Forum (AO, ECOSOC, UN) and sits on several corporate boards. He writes on geostrategy, global economics, defence, tech, and governance.

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Mamta Banerjee

West Bengal 2026: Power, street authority, and battle for political permanence

The most probable outcome of the 2026 election is a renewed TMC mandate, possibly with a reduced majority but still comfortably above the threshold required to govern. A dramatic BJP resurgence cannot be ruled out entirely, particularly if national political currents intensify polarisation, but it would require organisational reconstruction on a scale not currently visible. Dec 16, 2025
voting

Kerala 2026: Quiet re-engineering of a bipolar state

The Kerala Assembly election of 2026 is shaping up as a finely balanced contest driven less by ideology and more by procedural shifts, margin management and strategic vote-splitting. Increased voter scrutiny, roll verification and booth-level interventions are quietly reshaping outcomes, especially in closely fought constituencies. Dec 16, 2025
Kerala bypolls: Voting date for Palakkad Assembly seat shifted to Nov 20

Assam 2026: Power, identity, and new grammar of electoral control

Assam's 2026 Assembly election is less a conventional contest and more a referendum on a deeply consolidated political model built by the BJP over the past decade. Power in the state now rests on a fusion of identity politics, administrative control, and electoral process management. By anchoring its appeal in Assamese sub-nationalism, citizenship narratives, and strong institutional presence, the BJP has converted electoral loyalty into a structural advantage. Dec 16, 2025
ONGC

Rs 23,000 crore Reliance-ONGC case: Defining test of India's energy governance and law

At approximately ₹23,000 crore and potentially more the Reliance-ONGC gas dispute is among the largest natural-resource liability cases India has ever confronted. How the courts and the government respond will signal whether India is prepared to govern its strategic resources with the seriousness, transparency, and foresight they demand. Dec 15, 2025
Number of India's dollar millionaires to surge 55 pc by 2029: Report

Economically productive FTAs and PTAs? Surge in new FTAs

True productivity mandates 95 percent reciprocal tariff demolition, ironclad investment bindings, relaxed origins rules, and robust safeguards against surges. Fuse this with Rs 25,000 crore export propulsion through 2031 for high-tech niches. Dec 11, 2025
Russian President Putin departs Delhi after two-day State Visit; thanks India for 'warm welcome'

Forging iron curtain of East: India's bold bet on multipolar future

This alliance is not an act of fealty but enlightened pragmatism, a catalyst for India's transcendence beyond Western orbits toward a sovereign multipolarity. By steering with intellectual clarity, unwavering resolve, and iterative refinement, perhaps commissioning an independent impact audit by mid-2026, India can transform the Eastern iron curtain from a mere shield into a dynamo of global influence, redefining multipolarity not as chaos, but as opportunity. Dec 7, 2025
PM Modi, President Putin agree to ramp up India-Russia trade till 2030

Stars, Signals and Undeclared: The Real Story Behind Vladimir Putin's India Visit

On the surface, the visit delivered what the media expected: a renewed roadmap for bilateral trade, major agreements in energy and minerals, reaffirmation of defence-industrial cooperation, and a joint declaration to raise trade to USD 100 billion by 2030. In the age of polarising geopolitics, the India-Russia relationship had been ceremonially polished and publicly displayed. Dec 6, 2025
Sky is the limit: IndiGo is now tenth largest airline by capacity globally; growth indisputable [details]

Grounded dreams: IndiGo meltdown and India's aviation reckoning

This crisis is India's clearest burning platform in civil aviation history. If seized with rigour and political will, December 2025 will be remembered not as the week the skies failed, but as the moment India built an aviation ecosystem that is safe, resilient, competitive, and genuinely passenger-first. Dec 5, 2025
Putin, Modi

Putin's India summit: Engineering multipolar mastery alongside strategic partners

By integrating Russian defence, energy, and technology strengths into BRICS frameworks and Western partnerships, exemplified by Modi's Kyiv neutrality and iCET advancements, New Delhi secures economic multipliers: $100 billion trade targets, resilient supply chains, and edges in AI and nuclear capabilities, redefining sovereignty in a complex global landscape through strategic autonomy. Dec 3, 2025
Supreme Court, vyapam scam

Judicial finality, institutional integrity and the crisis of confidence

The moment demands doctrinal tightening, transparent listing, ethical safeguards, and institutional capacity-building. Without such reforms, judicial authority risks dilution, and the rule of law loses its moral force. In a constitutional democracy, the judiciary must remain a beacon of stability, predictability, and integrity. Dec 2, 2025
The Third Eye: India is global leader in Artificial Intelligence

Reimagining Team Building: Forging Human-AI Hybrids for Enduring Organizational Resilience

As generative AI reshapes the workplace, projected to disrupt 22 percent of global jobs by 2030 while creating 78 million new ones, why do only 14 percent of workers use it daily, despite its promise of higher pay, job security, and productivity for those who do? The disconnect stems from a deeper malaise: fragmented teams ill-equipped for hybrid human-AI collaboration, where financial strain affects 55 percent of the workforce and hybrid disconnection threatens $2 trillion in annual U.S. productivity losses alone. Nov 22, 2025
Nvidia AI program

Silicon empire trembles: Inside $610 billion AI mirage and Nvidia's moment of truth

AI frenzy epitomized by Nvidia's rollercoaster is not a outright Ponzi but a classic overextension, where trillion-dollar promises collide with prosaic realities like ROI shortfalls and power constraints yet the technology's transformative potential endures, with sovereign funds and enterprises likely sustaining a moderated build-out Nov 22, 2025
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