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Will West Bengal State Elections Test India-Bangladesh Ties?

New Delhi, April 29 -- As the results of the critical elections in India's West Bengal are awaited on May 4, Bangladesh will watch the ensuing political developments closely. Popular domestic narrativ... Read More


How Sri Lanka Balanced India and China Ties to Maximise Developmental Gains

New Delhi, April 29 -- India and China's economic engagement in Sri Lanka is better understood as complementary rather than purely competitive, shaped by their distinct strategic priorities and capabi... Read More


Geopolitical Uncertainties and the International Student:Need for Transformational Shift in Thinking for Education Providers

New Delhi, April 27 -- Geopolitics was rarely an influencer in deciding where an international student would pursue overseas education because, by and large, international students are apolitical in t... Read More


How to Lose a Country in Four Years: Will the Taliban be Architects of Their Own Demise?

New Delhi, April 24 -- Four years after seizing control in 2021, the Taliban regime is not consolidating control; it is unraveling from within. Far from the "peace and stability" they promised, Afghan... Read More


Trincomalee Energy Hub Development Will be a Strategic Milestone in India-Sri Lanka Ties

New Delhi, April 23 -- Indian Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan visit to Sri Lanka earlier this week shot into prominence not because it was the first official visit by an Indian VP to the island-nati... Read More


SAARC vs BIMSTEC: Why Regional Integration is Failing in South Asia

New Delhi, April 23 -- South Asia has a population of nearly two billion people. It contains some of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The World Bank projects the region's growth will reach ... Read More


Manipur's Unfinished War: When Suppressed Conflict Returns with Firepower

New Delhi, April 23 -- The renewed violence in Manipur, in India's Northeast, is not a breakdown of peace. It is the exposure of a peace that never truly existed. The recent killings, triggered by the... Read More


The Illusion of Strategic Mastery: How India's Tactical "Smartness" Created a Diplomatic Opening for Pakistan

New Delhi, April 22 -- In the high-stakes arena of global diplomacy, the year 2026 has witnessed a remarkable and sobering role reversal in South Asia. For over a decade, New Delhi enjoyed the status ... Read More


How Myanmar's State has Hollowed Out: Need for Engagement With Nonstate Actors

New Delhi, April 22 -- Myanmar's crisis has entered a new and more consequential phase-one that can no longer be understood through the traditional lens of state failure. What is unfolding is not simp... Read More


Ghost Murmur: How AI Rescued a Lost US Pilot in the Iran War

New Delhi, April 21 -- There is a radical change happening in modern warfare. Unlike in the past when military superiority relied mostly on the use of firearms, troop numbers, and the ability to contr... Read More