India, Feb. 3 -- Within the span of just one week, India may have succeeded in clawing itself back into the geopolitical sweet spot that it was so used to finding itself until 2024, and something that it regrettably lost in 2025. The much-awaited trade deal with the US, coming close on the heels of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the EU, effectively rearranges the global order in ways that enhance geopolitical space for India even while offering significant strategic opportunities.

But first the context. The lack of a trade deal with the US was becoming more than a minor irritant. It acted as a huge strategic roadblock for India as the latter sought to fashion a multipolar world out of the current geopolitical turbulence. And while i...