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Nepal's Unemployment Crisis: Needed Transformational Leadership to Utilize Available Resources

New Delhi, July 27 -- Every day, approximately 1,500 young Nepalis leave the country to work abroad. Nepal's unemployment rate stands at 10.47 percent, while youth unemployment (ages 15-24) is 20.56 p... Read More


China's Criminal Footprint in Sri Lanka has Regional Security Implications

New Delhi, July 27 -- What US Ambassador Alaina Teplitz warned in 2021 is now playing out in Sri Lanka. Last week, a violent clash between two Chinese gangs in the Chinese-backed Colombo Port City lef... Read More


Proxy Village Governance: The Pradhan Pati Problem in India's Democracy

New Delhi, July 26 -- Across large parts of India, governance reveals a pattern that is neither concealed nor formally acknowledged, yet persists with enough regularity to have acquired a name of its ... Read More


India's Student Revolt: South Asia Has Seen This Before

New Delhi, July 25 -- A nationwide student movement rarely begins with something as mundane as an examination irregularity. Yet across South Asia, youth protests have increasingly become the first vis... Read More


India's Youth Eruption and Ham-Handed Governmental Response: Demeaning Student Power Can Prove Costly

New Delhi, July 25 -- What began as an ill-considered courtroom comment by the Chief Justice of India has blown up into a full-scale nationwide protest movement by the student community against the ro... Read More


Bangladesh's Strategic Balancing and India's Neighbourhood Challenge: China Will Move in if New Delhi Fails to Deliver

New Delhi, July 24 -- Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's visit to China from June 22 to 26 marks an important milestone in South Asian geopolitics. Beyond the optics of his decision to visit B... Read More


Climate Security Becoming South Asia's Biggest Strategic Threat: Need for Regional Framework for Risk Assessment and Mitigation

New Delhi, July 24 -- The strategic debate in South Asia is dominated by traditional security concerns, including the India-Pakistan rivalry, China's growing presence in the region, rivalry in the Ind... Read More


Are the Echoes of 1971 Growing Louder in Balochistan? Voices that Pakistan Refuses to Hear

New Delhi, July 23 -- Every time Quetta buries its soldiers, the same question resurfaces in Islamabad: is Balochistan becoming another East Pakistan? The question has haunted Pakistani strategists si... Read More


The Cockroach Party and India's Democratic Reckoning: A Test of Governance for the BJP

New Delhi, July 23 -- An authoritarian regime always tends to be afraid of an armed insurrection. However, a democratic government should be wary of something completely different - the politically aw... Read More


The Ganga Water Treaty Needs More Than Renewal: It Needs Reinvention

New Delhi, July 23 -- When Bangladesh and India signed the Ganga Water Sharing Treaty in December 1996, it was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough. After decades of disputes surrounding the Farakka Ba... Read More