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Ballot Over Barracks: Why Pakistan's Future Depends on Civilian Power

New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- In August, I argued in The Friday Times that the real split between India and Pakistan after 1947 had little to do with culture or talent. It came down to one question: who contr... Read More


India and Japan's Next Security Challenge Is Strategic Endurance

New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- For India and Japan, the next security challenge is not simply how to deter a crisis, but how to remain operational when a crisis disrupts the systems that sustain national power... Read More


Sri Lanka's Influential Buddhist Clergy Raise Puts Government in a Spot

New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Sri Lanka's Marxist government's attempt to break the stranglehold of Buddhist monks over the majority Sinhala Buddhist population has backfired badly, with hundreds of Buddhist ... Read More


Amid Changing Geopolitics and Internal Turmoil, South Asia may Paradoxically get more European Attention

New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Europe is undergoing one of its most turbulent geopolitical periods since the end of the Cold War. The war in Ukraine, heightened tensions with Russia, doubts about long-term US ... Read More


Sri Lanka's Influential Buddhist Clergy Throws a Religious Challenge to Government

New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Sri Lanka's Marxist government's attempt to break the stranglehold of Buddhist monks over the majority Sinhala Buddhist population has backfired badly, with hundreds of Buddhist ... Read More


Himalayan Disasters Need a Himalayan Solution: The Case for a Regional Alliance to Mitigate Risks

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- "Hit by the climate we did not warm, and hit again by the wars we did not start." This is the story of almost every small state, aptly described by the Nepali Prime Minister Bale... Read More


Indian Cricket's Search for a Selector: Despite the Game's Glamour, Few Takers for the Thankless Job

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- There are few jobs in Indian cricket - not just the most popular sport but the national passion of its 1.4 billion population - more thankless than that of a national selector. T... Read More


South Asian Talent Almost Everywhere; Missing is an AI Invention from the Region the World Depends on

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- It was a warm, cloudless afternoon, the kind San Francisco saves for early autumn. The Ferry Building tower clock, which has kept time over the waterfront since 1898, chimed as I... Read More


Air Power and National Security: Strategic Choices that the Indian Air Force Needs to Make

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- The chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh, who superannuates at the end of October, flew his last fighter-jet sortie on an indigenous LCA (Light Combat Aircr... Read More


Nonalignment and Strategic Autonomy Unworkable for Small States: 'India First' Policy a Strategic Necessity for Sri Lanka

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Global politics is moving in an increasingly unpredictable direction, unlike anything witnessed in recent decades. What the Institute for Economics and Peace has described as an ... Read More