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When Poison Enters the System: Impunity, Vigilantism and South Asia's Internal Security Failure

New Delhi, June 22 -- 'Main Vaapas Aunga' (MVA) is an emotionally poignant film centred around the cataclysmic 1947 partition of the erstwhile Punjab province and it explores the trauma and horror of ... Read More


Will the Cockroach Eventually Take to the Streets? Defining Political Question Haunts World's Largest Democracy

New Delhi, June 22 -- There is something almost poetic about the fact that it took a senior judge of the Supreme Court of India, the highest temple of constitutional democracy, to accidentally spark o... Read More


From Protectorates to Partners: The US Resets Security Expectations in Asia

New Delhi, June 22 -- The recently concluded Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore reaffirmed a new shift in power calculations and strategic intent in the region, with various messages and narratives rein... Read More


Pakistan Takes Indus Water Issue to Brussels: Internationalising Dispute has Implications Beyond South Asia

New Delhi, June 21 -- Pakistan is trying to get European policymakers, legal scholars, and climate institutions to see the Indus river water-sharing dispute as a humanitarian issue, a climate adaptati... Read More


Sundarbans' Sand Mafia and its Sinking Delta: Illicit River Mining, Ecological Collapse, and Climate Migration in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta

New Delhi, June 21 -- The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, where the Sundarbans (the world's largest mangrove ecosystem) reside, is facing a confluence of environmental pressures more than just sea-level ris... Read More


In the Quiet Spaces Between Strangers, Sonia Bahl's Eighteen Inches Apart

New Delhi, June 21 -- In an age of relentless acceleration, contemporary fiction increasingly appears anxious about stillness. Many novels today arrive carrying the burden of urgency - geopolitical ca... Read More


A Mature Democracy Must be Confident Enough to Hear Youth Anger: Domestic Unrest can Become Global Politics in Hours

New Delhi, June 19 -- India's Cockroach Janta Party phenomenon should not be dismissed as a joke, nor should it be romanticised as a spontaneous revolution of the young. Its rise signals a deeper tran... Read More


In Search of Dharma in the Indian Diaspora

New Delhi, June 19 -- Last week I was invited to give a Keynote at Dharma in Digital Age Conference in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. My keynote showed that the biggest cause of crisis in the world is becaus... Read More


Energy Cooperation: A Quiet Success Story in South Asia

New Delhi, June 18 -- South Asia is often seen as a place of tensions, border disputes and strategic rivalries. There is a quiet success story unfolding. Energy connectivity is becoming an example of ... Read More


Lessons from Trump-Iran Deal: Strategic Autonomy is not a Luxury for India

New Delhi, June 17 -- The emerging agreement between the Trump administration and Iran is being presented by its supporters as a diplomatic achievement and by its critics as a strategic concession. Ye... Read More