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    <title>Are Indians Protesting More? Yes. Here Is the Evidence.</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>Every count of protests that exists for India points the same way. The ACLED event record shows demonstrations up by half since 2016 and at a record in 2024 to 2026. The police&#x27;s own count of agitations was rising before that. A catalogue of 217 major protests since 2000 shows the rate doubling since the late 2010s. The protests are also more peaceful than a decade ago. What has fallen is rioting, which is a different thing.</description>
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ARE INDIANS PROTESTING MORE? YES. HERE IS THE EVIDENCE.

Every count of protests in India points the same way: up. ACLED records half as many again as in 2016, the police's own agitation counts rose before that, and 2024 to 2026 are the busiest years on record. Part 1 of a research series.

From the opening:
“This is the first part of a research series on protest in India. The series asks who is protesting, why now, who pays and who amplifies, and how much of it is engineered. Before any of that can be asked, one question has to be answered with numbers rather than impressions: are Indians protesting more than they used to?”

By Vikas

Read the full research brief: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/are-indians-protesting-more

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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>
    <dc:creator>Dr Yashwant Singh</dc:creator>
    <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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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>The Price Cap Didn&#x27;t Stop Russian Oil. It Created a Toll Booth.</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Camilo Flora Matsumbo</dc:creator>
    <description>The price cap was meant to cut Russia&#x27;s revenue while keeping its oil on the market. Its enforcement built a parallel shipping system whose costs are shared unevenly by exporters, shipowners, insurers, traders and refiners.</description>
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THE PRICE CAP DIDN'T STOP RUSSIAN OIL. IT CREATED A TOLL BOOTH.

The G7 price cap kept Russian oil flowing but spawned a shadow fleet that taxes every barrel along the way. Who pays the toll?

The price cap was meant to cut Russia's revenue while keeping its oil on the market. Its enforcement built a parallel shipping system whose costs are shared unevenly by exporters, shipowners, insurers, traders and refiners.

From the opening:
“Nearly four years after the Group of Seven, the European Union and Australia imposed a price cap on Russian seaborne crude, that oil is still reaching global markets largely as before. This is not, by itself, evidence that the policy failed. The U.S.”

By Camilo Flora Matsumbo, Researcher and economic analyst, Mozambique

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/russian-oil-price-cap-shadow-fleet-toll-booth

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    <title>The Cost of Partition: What the Subcontinent Lost in 1947</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai</dc:creator>
    <description>What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent?</description>
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THE COST OF PARTITION: WHAT THE SUBCONTINENT LOST IN 1947

Partition split India and Pakistan’s shared economy: jute from its mills, cotton from its looms, canals from their markets.

What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent?

From the opening:
“There are dates in history that create new countries, and there are dates that permanently alter the economic geography of a civilisation. 1947 was both. The Partition of British India created two new dominions, India and Pakistan, but it also cut through an economic system that had developed over centuries.”

By Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai, Director of Quality Assurance and HRD, Prime Group, Islamabad

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/cost-of-partition-1947-south-asia-economy

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    <title>What If We Were Not Enemies?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai</dc:creator>
    <description>Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door</description>
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WHAT IF WE WERE NOT ENEMIES?

A view from Peshawar: what Pakistan and India lose to hostility, and what trade and investment in people could gain.

Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door

From the opening:
“Imagine a different South Asia. A Pakistani from Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Islamabad or Peshawar sitting across a table from an Indian from Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata not as an enemy, not as a proxy, not as a soldier, but as a businessman, researcher, teacher, doctor, engineer, student or neighbour.”

By Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai, Director of Quality Assurance and HRD, Prime Group, Islamabad

Read the full opinion: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-india-what-if-we-were-not-enemies

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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>
    <dc:creator>Dr Yashwant Singh</dc:creator>
    <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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    <title>Bangladesh&#x27;s BRICS Absence Was About More Than Protocol</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Kawsar Mia and Dr. Abdul Momen</dc:creator>
    <description>Dhaka&#x27;s no-show in New Delhi exposed a narrowing strategic space between BRICS-style financial autonomy and new U.S.-linked economic-security commitments.</description>
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BANGLADESH'S BRICS ABSENCE WAS ABOUT MORE THAN PROTOCOL

Dhaka's no-show in New Delhi was read as a protocol dispute. The trade agreement it signed in February explains more.

From the opening:
“Bangladesh's decision to stay away from the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi should not be read as proof that Dhaka has chosen Washington over BRICS.”

By Kawsar Mia and Dr. Abdul Momen

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/bangladesh-brics-absence-was-about-more-than-protocol

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    <title>Why India and China Secretly Want the Dollar to Survive</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>The bloc&#x27;s two biggest economies hold trillions in dollar assets, and their rivalry makes a shared alternative even less likely.</description>
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WHY INDIA AND CHINA SECRETLY WANT THE DOLLAR TO SURVIVE

The bloc's two biggest economies hold trillions in dollar assets, and their rivalry makes a shared alternative even less likely.

From the opening:
“Vladimir Putin landed in New Delhi this morning. Xi Jinping arrives tomorrow, his first visit to India since 2019. Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian flies in from a country at war.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/why-india-and-china-secretly-want-the-dollar-to-survive

#Geopolitics #China #SouthAsia #UnitedStates #India #GlobalEconomy]]></content:encoded>
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    <title>China’s Water Bomb Has Exploded in Nepal — and the World Is Silent</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.</description>
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CHINA’S WATER BOMB HAS EXPLODED IN NEPAL — AND THE WORLD IS SILENT

Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.

From the opening:
“903 dead. 4,247 missing. 933 workers sealed inside hydropower tunnels. This is obviously a climate-change catastrophe. But in the international media, almost no one is asking what China’s construction across the Tibetan Plateau has to do with it.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/chinas-water-bomb-nepal

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    <title>The World Is Moving Toward a Food Crisis. Russia Could Be the Last Resort.</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>War, fertiliser shortages, export restrictions and El Niño are breaking the global food chain</description>
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The World Is Moving Toward a Food Crisis. Russia Could Be the Last Resort.

War, fertiliser shortages, export restrictions and El Niño are breaking the global food chain

From the opening:
“On Monday the Kremlin held a press briefing to reassure the world about food. Major agencies in the world are saying the same thing.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/food-crisis-russia-last-resort

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    <title>The Biggest El Niño Since 1877 Could Hit Harder</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>This time, we have 18 months’ warning — and still no plan.</description>
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THE BIGGEST EL NIÑO SINCE 1877 COULD HIT HARDER

This time, we have 18 months’ warning — and still no plan.

From the opening:
“W hat you are looking at is not a model output but a measurement. Water expands as it warms, so a satellite that reads sea-surface height to within centimetres is also, indirectly, a thermometer for the upper ocean.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/biggest-el-nino-since-1877

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    <title>The Problem with Western Media</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>Where Terrorism Depends on Who’s Attacked</description>
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THE PROBLEM WITH WESTERN MEDIA

Where Terrorism Depends on Who’s Attacked

From the opening:
“The narrative adopted by the media has always influenced public perception, and the Western media has consistently shown hypocrisy in this regard.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/biggest-hypocrisy-of-the-western-media

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    <title>India-Pakistan: The Next Major War?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>5 ways India can respond to the terrorist attack by Pakistan</description>
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INDIA-PAKISTAN: THE NEXT MAJOR WAR?

5 ways India can respond to the terrorist attack by Pakistan

From the opening:
“The thing that was started by the Pakistan-backed terrorist attack can be turned into a small-scale war between both nations The terrorists killed the unarmed Indian tourists — families, honeymooners, kids — who were attacked by terrorists in one of the most heartbreaking incidents we’ve seen in recent times.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/india-pakistan-the-next-major-war

#Geopolitics #SouthAsia #India #Pakistan #GlobalEconomy]]></content:encoded>
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