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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India's banking : Reimagining trust, technology, and transformation

India's banks must become both thinkers and doers, technologically bold, ethically grounded, and strategically visionary. The future of India's economy depends on it.

Sep 4, 2025

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NextGen GST reform: Transformative leap for India's economic future

The NextGen GST reforms represent a bold reengineering of India's tax landscape, balancing simplicity, inclusivity, and economic competitiveness. By addressing structural inefficiencies, reducing consumer costs, and empowering businesses, they lay the groundwork for sustained growth, writes Major General Dilawar Singh.

Sep 4, 2025

Justice at crossroads: Judiciary, executive, and search for balance

The health of a democracy depends not only on the text of its Constitution but on the living practices of its institutions. The government must curb its impulses for overreach, and the judiciary must overcome its silences, delays, and internal controversies to reassert its role as the ultimate guardian of constitutionalism.

Aug 31, 2025

Aristotle X1 and new AI frontier: Forging human-centric intelligence through reasoning and trust

For India, the imperative is twofold: build sovereign AI capabilities in reasoning and retrieval, and integrate these into strategic sectors. This demands not only technological innovation but also a cultural shift, viewing AI as a partner in human progress.

Aug 26, 2025

President Donald J. Trump appointed Sergio Gor as the U.S. Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs.

Sergio Gor's ascendancy to India: Bold diplomatic pivot in era of global reckoning

What Sergio Gor appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs mean for India.

Aug 23, 2025

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Modern corporate banking: A new golden age of innovation and intelligence

This new era is powered by intelligence, human and machine and focused on creating true "wow" at every point of corporate interaction. The real winners: companies and banks who build for tomorrow, today.

Aug 22, 2025

India's Online Gaming Bill 2025: Forging bright future for esports and responsible digital gaming

Finally India's Online Gaming Bill, 2025 is more than a regulatory exercise. It is a visionary framework that combines growth with accountability, freedom with responsibility, and innovation with ethics.

Aug 22, 2025

India in age of emerging intelligence: From DeepSeek to national vision

Generative AI systems like ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek promise productivity gains, innovation, and new forms of knowledge creation. Yet the very same technologies carry risks that are equally profound.

Aug 20, 2025

Bhagat Singh's atheism: A voice of reason for a fractured world

Bhagat Singh's atheism was never about denial; it was about responsibility. It was not about tearing down faith but about building freedom. His life and death remind us that the courage to question is the foundation of all liberation.

Aug 20, 2025

David vs Goliath in tech: How Zoho, Zerodha, and Perplexity are out-innovating giants

As Perplexity bids for Chrome and Zoho and Zerodha quietly outpace global incumbents, a new era emerges where conviction, not capital, defines the future of innovation.

Aug 17, 2025

Despite 'Progress,' Trump–Putin Summit Produces No Immediate Ukraine Ceasefire

Trump-Putin Alaska Summit: Outcomes and implications

The establishment narrative centered on Trump as a dealmaker and Putin as a pariah obscures deeper truths. Trump's tariff strategy, while framed as leverage against Russia, risks alienating allies like India, weakening the U.S.-led order.

Aug 17, 2025

Reshaping the World: Trade, Tariffs, Technology, Trust, and Transformation

Trade, Tariffs, Technology, Trust, and Transformation are the intertwined forces shaping the world's future. Mastery demands visionary strategy, ethical governance, and collaborative leadership.

Aug 11, 2025

Industrial analytics and rise of autonomous intelligence

In a world where machines sense, learn, and decide with unprecedented precision, we are no longer engineering operations we are engineering cognition itself. Industrial analytics has matured from a tool of insight to a force of instinct.

Aug 9, 2025

The intelligence economy arrives: Strategy in age of engineered cognition

This is the task before governments, boards, militaries, and educational institutions: to cultivate strategic brilliance in an age where thinking is no longer human alone, but hybrid and shared.

Aug 9, 2025

CFO to CEO: What Balaji's rise signals for global leadership and India Inc's ascent

P B Balaji's ascent to the CEO office at Jaguar Land Rover is not merely a celebration of individual achievement—it is an affirmation of a new archetype of leadership. He is not a corporate warrior in the traditional sense, nor a visionary tech maverick.

Aug 5, 2025

$The Light Ahead: Can rising powers lead in a fractured world?$

The light ahead: Can rising powers lead in a fractured world?

As global power fragments into a tense multipolar world, rising nations like India, Brazil, and Turkey face both peril and promise—armed with economic momentum, strategic autonomy, and the chance to lead a new global order.

Aug 3, 2025

Guardians of digital lives: Human Heart of cybersecurity innovation

By 2040, self-healing networks and global defense fabrics could secure our digital world, but only with governance and collaboration. Embracing these advancements, organizations can forge a future where cybersecurity is a guardian, protecting lives and livelihoods with brilliance and heart.

Aug 2, 2025

India 2047 — a sustainable power: Shaping a multipolar future

By 2047, India will anchor Asia, mediate global divides, and shape equitable norms, not through hegemony but through its unique capacity to stabilize complexity.

Aug 1, 2025

Global AI Horizons: A Collaborative Intelligence Ecosystem for 2030

China's systemic integration, America's AGI ambition, Russia's security focus, Taiwan's hardware leadership, South Korea's consumer innovation, and contributions from Europe and India form a global mosaic. The advancements, xAI's Grok 3, TSMC's neuromorphic chips, Baidu's autonomous systems, herald this future.