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Cultural Diplomacy and Reviving Bangladesh-India Ties Beyond Political Divisions

New Delhi, March 11 -- Bangladesh hosts about 90 per cent Muslims of its total population, along with other minorities, making it one of the largest Muslim-majority countries in the world. On the cont... Read More


Raw Courage Amid Patriarchal Terror: Where Girls Have to Disguise as Boys to Survive in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

New Delhi, March 11 -- I am a Pashtun girl, born and raised in Peshawar, where the echoes of Pashtunwali, our ancient code of honor, family loyalty, and resilience, still shape the rhythm of daily lif... Read More


Khamenei's Assassination and a Fractured Iran: Regional and Global Ramifications of a War of Attrition

New Delhi, March 10 -- The targeted assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 28 February 2026 stands as one of the most consequential decapitation strikes in contemporary international relations. As... Read More


N.Q. Dias: Sri Lanka's Clausewitz, a Man With a Strategic Vision for the Island

New Delhi, March 10 -- Neil Quintus Dias, better known as N. Q. Dias, was a Sri Lankan civil servant whose strategic foresight has largely been forgotten, perhaps due to the xenophobic views and racia... Read More


EU-India Defence Dialogue Signals Strategic Convergence in a Fractured World Order

New Delhi, March 10 -- Following the conclusion of negotiations on a free trade agreement in January and discussions on expanding cooperation in research and scientific collaboration in February, the ... Read More


US-India Tariff Framework: Trade Concessions Should not Dictate Foreign Policy Choices

New Delhi, March 9 -- Trade agreements are rarely confined to commerce. They frequently function as instruments through which larger geopolitical alignments are shaped and tested. The recently announc... Read More


Why Nepal's Gen Z Succeeded Where Bangladesh's Failed

New Delhi, March 9 -- Strange contrasts can be found in the recent history of Nepal and Bangladesh. Two countries with restless youth, similar dissatisfaction with economic stagnation and corruption, ... Read More


Reimagining a Cooperative South Asia: A Next-Gen Agenda to Revive SAARC

New Delhi, March 9 -- Regional organisations rarely collapse dramatically; they drift quietly into irrelevance. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) appears to be caught in pre... Read More


Gorkhas are Not Nepalese: Ending the Migrant Myth and the Indian Gorkha Identity Crisis

New Delhi, March 8 -- Socio-political life of 'New India' is characterized by a woven web of ethnic demands, but not many communities can find their way through conditions of such contradiction as the... Read More


Competition for Critical Minerals can be a New Arena for International Conflict

New Delhi, March 8 -- In a recent address by the permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, the rising competition in world markets over the most essential minera... Read More