Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)Few would imagine an air force commanded by commercial airline pilots, a navy led by merchant seafarers, or an army headed by…
— By Aayushi Pandey and Dr Aparaajita PandeyA democracy is not judged by how it behaves when all is calm. Its real character shows when citizens take to the streets to question those wh…
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)I joined the Border Security Force in 1991 as a company commander on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hil…
lllustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)— By Bhanavi Mathur and Dr Aparaajita PandeyInternational Relations tends to conventionally focus on the visible instruments …
Relatives and helpers carrying bodies of children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. (Photo via Yaqeen Institute)This author has stood over the bodies of children before – dead children,…
The world is watching Europeans jump into rivers to cool off in this extreme heat; as the temperatures soar and social media gets bombarded with content of Parisians lamenting the lack …
GE F-414 jet engine (Photo: X)Two GE Aerospace engines – two programmes, two separate crises – have placed India’s indigenous fighter aviation ambitions under a degree of stress that is…
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)Every year on June 19, the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. The date com…
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In March 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Union home ministry) declared what few had once thought possible: the eradicatio…
The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion i…
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of…
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In July 1999, the prime minister-headed Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved one of the most ambitious naval moderniz…
