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In not agreeing to have a parliamentary resolution against Sri Lanka, the Parliament has demonstrated where politics ends and policy-making on a sensitive area as external affairs and neighbourhood relations begin.
Over the past decade, Mumbai’s civil society has raised concerns over the way in which the municipal corporation appears to be prioritising rapid development at the cost of the city’s public space. Indeed, the city has lost significant areas of its open spaces owing to various reasons, among them archaic policies, unrealistic goals, and the labyrinthine division of power and jurisdiction between the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and othe
This ideological confusion between violence and politics has become even more opaque with the growth of ideologically overlapping subcultures online.
अब जबकि भारत 2023 में जी20 की अध्यक्षता (G20 presidency) की प्रतीक्षा कर
Gas in its varied avatars is going to become the most important bridge fuel for the next decades at least, with the world probably going to see very different gas markets dictating the geo-politics of the future.
This Issue Brief looks at the world of digital spaces and analyses issues such as the politics of silencing women; propriety; and health and gender-specific vulnerabilities.
Technology has been a fulcrum point for Trump’s disruption of the status-quos with China, with 5G leading the way
The biggest challenge for the Germans is perhaps introspecting who is a German and what do they want Germany’s future to be.
In the second of a two-part series, as the Indo-Pacific takes central focus in geopolitics, democratic nations must work to keep the region’s strate
Hamas attack and Israel’s response to these terror strikes will single-handedly reshape the trajectory of regional geopolitics at least in the near
The volatile politics in Male at this crucial juncture can change the course of the Presidential race and the future of big-ticket infrastructure in t
Good politics must also be good economics. Acting irresponsibly is not politically rational — there is an appetite now amongst voters for hard reform.
The short European spring might be over if the European Union fails to come up with a more democratic mandate.
The Hindu rate of growth, like Sanatan Dharma, has evolved—Raghuram Rajan and other narrative economists are stuck in the past
During a discussion on "Urban Middle Classes and the Ascent of New Politics in India" at ORF, it was noted that success should not be measured in terms of the ability to ensure successful electoral outcomes but as an attempt to make better societies.
Competitive welfarism is a consequence of India's failure to deliver inclusive growth. Can it be shaped so future growth is assured?
India's vote at Geneva in favour of the UNHRC resolution critical of Sri Lanka possibly signals the increasing vulnerability of national interests to regional interests dictated by the necessity of coalition politics. India's this strategic folly would once again rebound to China's and Pakistan's advantage.
There is a deeper politics at play here, a politics of negotiation and a transaction of international power games that is diluting the dangers of Paki
A hard look at our politics and society suggests it may be a good idea to go by seniority alone till we become more complete ‘Indians’
The politics of Centre-State relations has been a powerful force in shaping India's foreign policy. India's rapid economic growth has furthermore given a new found influence to regional parties, leading to their disproportionate influence over the formulation of foreign policy.
India should join hands with Japan, South Korea, and Australia to collaborate on shared geopolitical and security interests so that it can counterbala
This paper considers and explains the shifts and consistencies in India’s engagement with structures of global trade governance beginning from the Uruguay round of trade negotiations in late 1980s. It makes three major arguments. First, that although India has participated actively in global trade negotiations since the establishment of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) it was only under the present-day trade governance institut
India began its nuclear journey on a responsible note, and should continue to do so, even if arms control is a tall order amidst complex nuclear polit
This brief reviews the crucial role of India in global climate politics and highlights the country’s partnerships on sustainable energy in Africa through the India-led International Solar Alliance (ISA). The brief finds that, beyond contributing to climate change mitigation, India—through ISA, in particular—is helping ensure energy security and sustainable livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa by providing poor communities access to natural, ec
A strategic partnership of two great democracies will counter the rising influence of techno-authoritarians.
Elevating India's standing in world politics, it has been invited to the next week's Annapolis conference on West Asia, convened by the United States, and it would be taking part in the conference, the Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India for West Asia and Middle East Peace Process, Mr. C.R. Gharekhan announced here today.
The Davos model of globalization is in need of a successor that New Delhi could potentially offer
A mandate only places a particular politics in power; it does not mean, as in authoritarian regimes such as China, the power to run individual or coll
This episode illustrates the danger facing Indian foreign policy from domestic political developments, increasingly centered on religious conflict.
Beyond personalities and politics, there is one basic question we need to ask ourselves: Why even 66 years after independence, is New Delhi's influence in its region shrinking instead of expanding?
Our biggest challenges will emerge from domestic politics.
The victory of a pro-China government in the Maldives offers Beijing an opportunity to restore its influence in the Indian Ocean region
This report presents an initial stocktaking of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) announced in 2023 following a meeting in New Delhi between the leaders of India, the US, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Italy, France, Germany, and the European Commission. Given that the participating economies contribute to almost half of the global GDP, there are many opportunities and challenges associated with the economic corridor.
India–Nordic partnership has metamorphosed over the years marking strategic convergence that significantly impacts bilateral and global geopolitics
India-Russia defence relations have already become mature which normally comes in alliance politics like anglo-saxon model or very special relationship like US-Israel. Very few parallel example can be found in case of other countries like the ones that Russia has developed with India.
India, the world’s largest democracy, and the United States (US), the world’s oldest democracy, are heading to elections this year. The elections come when both democracies are increasing their cooperation in South Asia (SA) to maintain a ‘free and open’ Indo-Pacific and push back against an assertive and aggressive China.
The outbreak of a gargantuan health crisis in the form of COVID19 seems to have interrupted the monotony of dysfunctional and polarised politics, albeit in a limited way.
2022 was driven forward by the government’s relentless energy, drive, innovation, and rapid self-correction
कई तरह के उतार-चढ़ाव के बावजूद न्यायपालिका को अभी भी न्या�
While Non-Congress parties spare no opportunity to accuse the Congress Party of psychophancy and a feudal culture, regional parties are not far behind. In fact, they have perfected the art of dynastic politics, beating the Congress Party.
Think20, the ideas bank of G20, will engage with the gamut of issues – strategic, economic and structural – that confront all countries
The Indo-Pacific region will shape the trajectory of global politics for most of the 21st century
