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What India want to achieve from Africa Summit?
Oct 26, 2015

What India want to achieve from Africa Summit?

How can we differentiate ourselves from China whilst dealing with Africa? Clearly the worst option would be to emulate the muscular Chinese style of economic diplomacy. For one we just don't have the firepower. For another the principle of comparative advantage advocates that everyone must play to their strengths.

What Iran did for India and why it is hurt
Oct 04, 2005

What Iran did for India and why it is hurt

Strikingly similar to the crisis that Iran faced at the IAEA Board meeting in Vienna last weekend, India too found itself in a tight spot in April 1994 at the United Nations Human Rights Commission's annual session in Geneva.

What is so secret about the information even India's enemies know?
Oct 25, 2016

What is so secret about the information even India's enemies know?

What is a secret? Sometimes, it is a conundrum presented this way: The Indian “surgical strikes” across the line of control are a secret at varying levels not only in India, but also in Pakistan

What Japan and India stand to gain from Shinzo Abe's victory
Oct 25, 2017

What Japan and India stand to gain from Shinzo Abe's victory

Prime Minister Abe has been one of the strongest pillars of the India-Japan bilateral ties since 2006.

What lies ahead for India after joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Jun 12, 2017

What lies ahead for India after joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

India’s membership of the SCO is a manifestation of the reality that India’s interests are as much in the Indian Ocean as the Eurasian landmass.

What lies ahead for India and the world in the 2020s?
May 15, 2017

What lies ahead for India and the world in the 2020s?

With tectonic and technological challenges causing disruptions, the neat correlation of a big economy with big power that bears big responsibilities is under scrutiny.

What Nirmala Sitharaman needs to do to reform India’s defence establishment
Sep 16, 2017

What Nirmala Sitharaman needs to do to reform India’s defence establishment

Fixing manufacturing and acquisitions alone will not work. Nirmala Sitharaman needs to urgently tackle the need to reorganise India’s sprawling military to make them an effective fighting unit for 21st century warfare, where challenges range from nuclear armed adversaries to proxy jihadis.

What Putins visit means for India-Russia ties
Dec 02, 2021

What Putins visit means for India-Russia ties

The Russian president, who will be in New Delhi on December 6, is not just coming to maintain the ‘special, privileged strategic partnership’, but to also deepen bilateral relations

What saves India from suicide attacks
Oct 26, 2015

What saves India from suicide attacks

Compared to the increasing suicide attacks the world over, India has, by and large, remained safe from these assaults. The reason is that Indian Muslims have a strong sense of Indian identity. In both their grievances and aspirations they think like their fellow Indian citizens, rather through any religious or sectarian prism.

What Shinzo Abe's victory in his party's internal election means to India
Sep 24, 2018

What Shinzo Abe's victory in his party's internal election means to India

The Japanese Prime Minister may have won a battle, but the war remains.

What the Marshall plan can teach India about China-Pakistan economic corridor
Jan 10, 2017

What the Marshall plan can teach India about China-Pakistan economic corridor

The CPEC may be a bilateral endeavour, but New Delhi cannot ignore its spillover effects on regional governance and regime creation in South Asia

What this China-Japan friendship means to India and the South China sea conflict
Nov 05, 2018

What this China-Japan friendship means to India and the South China sea conflict

Japan knows India is the best possible regional counter-weight to a rising China. At the same time, it has to work with China to counter global uncertainties.

What Trump’s new National Security Strategy means for India
Dec 21, 2017

What Trump’s new National Security Strategy means for India

India, in the new report, falls squarely in the “opportunity” category, rather than in that of “threats” or even “competition” for the US.

What Turkey Can Teach India
Jun 27, 2011

What Turkey Can Teach India

In India, the office of the foreign minister doesn't command nearly the sort of authority it should, or it did in the past. While foreign policy in other countries is influenced by domestic politics, in India it's being completely overshadowed by intra-party and intra-government feuds.

What US and India need to do together in Afghanistan
Apr 18, 2013

What US and India need to do together in Afghanistan

The issues in Afghanistan do not exhaust potential areas for India-US cooperation. For example, combating the drug trade, engaging China, Central Asian nations, Iran, and Russia. Successful coordination and collaboration will go a long way towards creating a post-2014 Afghan scenario amenable to both India and the US.

What will India’s G20 presidency focus on?
Jul 05, 2022

What will India’s G20 presidency focus on?

India’s presidency must leave the grouping with the agility and energy to respond to new realities, and it must create a future-ready multilateralism through a novel and robust institutional architecture

What will Rajapaksa’s return mean for India-Sri Lanka relations?
Nov 29, 2019

What will Rajapaksa’s return mean for India-Sri Lanka relations?

A closer look at what Sri Lanka’s recent election results may mean for ties between New Delhi and Colombo.

Whatever the provocation, the Indian armed forces cannot take recourse to illegal acts
Apr 17, 2017

Whatever the provocation, the Indian armed forces cannot take recourse to illegal acts

The state’s monopoly of violence is accepted only if it follows the rule of law; if it doesn’t, it justifies the breaking of its monopoly by individuals, mobs and insurgents.

What’s behind the rising India-France maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific?
Mar 27, 2020

What’s behind the rising India-France maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific?

A recent engagement spotlighted the broader strategic collaboration between the two countries in this realm.

What’s in a Name? India’s Role in the Indo-Pacific
Jul 22, 2021

What’s in a Name? India’s Role in the Indo-Pacific

For now, India’s role in the Western Pacific region remains symbolic, and in the Indo-Pacific context, confined to the Indian Ocean Region.

What’s next for India-Japan defence relations?
Sep 07, 2019

What’s next for India-Japan defence relations?

While the impetus for closer alignment is clear, much work remains to be done on the security side and within the wider bilateral relationship.

What’s next for India’s space programme?
Feb 03, 2018

What’s next for India’s space programme?

India has yet to decide how to frame its national interests in outer space in a way that promotes both its own national requirements and global needs — it has an opportunity to take the lead.

What’s Next for the India-France-UAE Trilateral?
Oct 03, 2022

What’s Next for the India-France-UAE Trilateral?

India, France and the UAE, which share strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific, met for a ministerial meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week.

When it comes to internet governance, India is still engaging actively with the UN
Aug 11, 2014

When it comes to internet governance, India is still engaging actively with the UN

A final draft resolution at the United Nations, passed in July 2014, has focused on the UN General Assembly's review process of World Summit on the Information Society outcomes implementation.

When Modi meets China’s Xi in Wuhan, India starts from a position of weakness
Apr 25, 2018

When Modi meets China’s Xi in Wuhan, India starts from a position of weakness

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to talk peace with Beijing. Why?

Where Does India Stand In the Indo-Pacific Nuclear Tinderbox?
Sep 22, 2021

Where Does India Stand In the Indo-Pacific Nuclear Tinderbox?

With more nations building their nuclear arsenal, the Indo-Pacific is becoming a high-risk place.

Where would India fit in a missile defense partnership in the Indo-Pacific?
Jan 25, 2019

Where would India fit in a missile defense partnership in the Indo-Pacific?

A closer look at what the recently released US Missile Defense Review means for New Delhi.

Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action
Oct 04, 2010

Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action

This paper explores how an individual's participation in higher education is dependent on her religious affiliations, socio-economic status and demographic characteristics.

Why 'surgical strikes' are a slippery slope for India
Sep 30, 2016

Why 'surgical strikes' are a slippery slope for India

For the uninitiated, surgical strikes are limited and lightning fast incursions into enemy territory meant to neutralise tactical threats.

Why 2025 could be India’s maritime moment
Dec 26, 2024

Why 2025 could be India’s maritime moment

India continues to be enthusiastic about the potential of the Quad in shaping a free, open, and inclusive rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific

Why 2070 is justified as the net-zero deadline year for India
Nov 27, 2021

Why 2070 is justified as the net-zero deadline year for India

The challenge of a “net zero” for India is not an easy one. Being one of the fastest growing economies with the second largest population that aspires to be $5 trillion economy soon, will India be able to circumvent the trade-off between the environment and economic growth?

Why Al Qaeda's new wing is likely to fail in India
Sep 08, 2014

Why Al Qaeda's new wing is likely to fail in India

like the ISI, Lashkar-e-Tayyeba or the Indian Mujahideen, the al Qaeda will not meet much success in India because the Indian Muslims are happy with their lot in a secular, democratic country and even al Zawahiri understands that.

Why are Indian news channels so disappointing?
Jun 29, 2017

Why are Indian news channels so disappointing?

With the sheer volume of free — occasionally dubious and sometimes outright fake — content available online, one wonders if the news business can ever be rescued in India.