Naighbouring Affairs: Does Pakistan still matter to India?
Pakistan’s weak coalition government, which is propped up by the military, is unlikely to be able to undertake any bold diplomatic initiative toward...
To The Moon and Back: India's Lunar Triumph
India’s achievements in space – most recently the first-ever landing of a lunar rover on the Moon’s south pole – undoubtedly strengthen its diplomatic...
A land divided: India’s state of violence
The conflict between the Meitei and Kuki in Manipur has complex roots, linked to land, identity, autonomy, and the drug trade. But it has been...
The US and India’s non-aligned alliance
It was often said that Pakistan was a US ally but not a friend, while India was a friend but not an ally. Despite its intensifying strategic...
The balance sheet Stock taking: Nine years of Modi’s regime
From the expansion of India’s infrastructure to rapid technological diffusion, the PM’s nine years in office have included plenty of worthy...
Systemic Rot: A saga of crime, punishment in Uttar Pradesh
Every time a high-profile criminal case in India collapses, there is renewed clamour for vigilante justice of the kind seen last month with the public...
Stifling dissent: India’s democracy in detention
The sentencing of Rahul Gandhi, the strongman of the opposition INC, to two years in prison over a 2019 quip may turn out to be a political own-goal...
L’affaire Rahul Gandhi: Hypocrisy on stilts
He concluded by declaring that the BJP “would like to emphatically state with great agony that Rahul Gandhi, in his speeches, has sought to shame...
