Archive - Ehtesham's Substack

The Day the Cloud Said No

India has spent a decade putting its economy and its government online. It has spent far less effort preparing for the day a foreign decision switches…

Jun 14 • Mohammad Ehteshamul Haque

When Strategic Cultures Collide: The Cultural Logic Behind the Iran Crisis

Why Israel, the United States, and Iran may be interpreting the same events through entirely different civilisational lenses

Jun 6 • Mohammad Ehteshamul Haque

May 2026

The Email That the Books Could Not Help Me Send

Twenty years across borders taught me that culture does not only show up in meetings. It shows up in sentences.

May 4 • Mohammad Ehteshamul Haque

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