Advances in Science & Technology have played a fundamental role in shaping International Relations (IR) as a discipline. In India, at present, the ways and means through which advances in niche fields of strategic and critical technologies have enhanced the nation's power status receives scant attention in IR curricula. 

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The role of S&T in equipping India with system-shaping capabilities is largely taken for granted. This gap in curriculum severely limits the ability of Indian scholarship to make a credible case for India’s rise. Consequently, the Indian narrative is left short in examining the notion of power and power status – concepts whose qualitative and quantitative parameters have been set by the West, and recently, China.

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India, a leading technological power in the present day, must not be left behind in incorporating such understanding into its IR pedagogy. Such a change should begin with a relook into the academic curricula in IR being taught across the nation and incorporating the role that S&T has played in India’s rise. ​What needs to be emphasised upon in this context is the realisation that global power dynamics in the 21st Century is defined by an increased intertwining between technology and geopolitics.

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