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  <description>Dr Yashwant Singh is an Indian sociologist working at the intersection of urban studies, development and geopolitics. He holds an M.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad. His analyses have appeared at Modern Diplomacy, Eurasia Review, YNet News, World Geostrategic Insights, South Asia Journal and IA-Forum.</description>
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    <title>The Bhagiratha Wager: Why India&#x27;s AI Sovereignty Needs the River-Interlinking Idea</title>
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    <description>The two projects are not rivals for the same rupee. They are the same wager made at two scales: that a civilisation-state must be able to sense, model and steer the large systems on which its life depends.</description>
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The Bhagiratha Wager: Why India's AI Sovereignty Needs the River-Interlinking Idea

India cannot pursue AI sovereignty while dismissing river interlinking, argues Dr Yashwant Singh: both demand the capacity to model large systems.

The two projects are not rivals for the same rupee. They are the same wager made at two scales: that a civilisation-state must be able to sense, model and steer the large systems on which its life depends.

From the opening:
“Every Hindu household rite begins with a small act of hydraulic engineering. The priest pours water into a vessel and invokes the Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Sarasvati, Narmada, Sindhu and Kaveri to be present in this water. Seven basins are summoned into one pot.”

By Dr Yashwant Singh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, GITAM University, Bengaluru

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/bhagiratha-wager-india-ai-sovereignty-river-interlinking

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    <title>Why AI Power Will Be Claimed in the Next Thirty Months, and by Whom</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>India and Russia cannot win the race for capacity. They can contest the race for standing, and standing has a shorter clock.</description>
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    <content:encoded><![CDATA[New analysis on The Geopolitical Economist

WHY AI POWER WILL BE CLAIMED IN THE NEXT THIRTY MONTHS, AND BY WHOM

India and Russia cannot win the race for AI capacity. They can contest the race for standing, and India can be the witness.

From the opening:
“Most talk of AI power counts assets: chips, clusters, parameters, capital. On that count India and Russia will trail Washington and Beijing for years. But counting assets mistakes the nature of the contest.”

By Dr Yashwant Singh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, GITAM University, Bengaluru

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/ai-power-next-thirty-months-india-russia-witness

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    <title>Grid, Factory, and the Shared Sovereignty Problem: India-Israel Convergence in Electrical, Automation, and Robotics Technology</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>India&#x27;s manufacturing scale without design-and-verification depth, and Israel&#x27;s design-and-verification depth without manufacturing scale, are mirror-image versions of the same incomplete sovereignty position. Converging them is not merely good industrial policy.</description>
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Grid, Factory, and the Shared Sovereignty Problem: India-Israel Convergence in Electrical, Automation, and Robotics Technology

India's manufacturing scale without design depth, and Israel's design depth without scale, are the same incomplete sovereignty. A case for convergence.

From the opening:
“Two essays, read separately, describe two different anxieties. One, "India's Power Grid and the AI-Era Sovereignty Problem" (September 18, 2026), is about the electricity grid becoming a cyber-physical system whose real vulnerability lies not in foreign hardware but in who controls its firmware, patches, and failure…”

By Dr Yashwant Singh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, GITAM University, Bengaluru

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/india-israel-shared-sovereignty-problem

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