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Head-on | Japan’s pivot to India can remake Asia’s power dynamic

Both China and the US will be watching the Modi-Takaichi summit closely. Beijing worries that deeper Japan-India ties can erode its primacy in Asia. Washington’s concerns are more nuanced than Beijing’s. It has reconciled itself to one Asian rival — China. In 10 years, it could be staring at two — China and India

Fight and negotiate: The new normal in West Asia

There is cautious optimism that the current ceasefire — despite violations — will continue to hold as both sides progress towards a permanent agreement with the ‘New Normal’, which is to fight while continuing to negotiate

Wakon Yōsai: The hidden grammar of the India-Japan embrace

More than ever, today India and Japan instinctively understand each other’s nation building goals

My name is Pakistan: I was an Arab yesterday, a Harappan today

Pakistan’s sudden embrace of its pre-Islamic past is less a civilisational awakening than a carefully crafted geopolitical rebranding, aided by the West

Sanae Takaichi’s visit is set to reinforce the fact that Japan, not US, is India’s truest natural partner

‘Indo-Pacific’ does not require unremitting commitment from a distracted United States; there are enough able actors to deter China

Oil built Indo-Gulf ties; talent and knowledge will shape what comes next

The Gulf is navigating a period of uncertainty. Yet, it is also preparing for its next chapter of growth and transformation. In that journey, India and the Gulf have an opportunity to build a partnership founded not merely on resources, but on innovation, knowledge and shared prosperity

India’s MAHASAGAR moment begins in Seychelles

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit has successfully elevated India-Seychelles relations from a traditional maritime defence partnership into a holistic, model alliance for the 21st century

When Canadian rights become weapons for Khalistani activists

Canadian rights are invoked, then stretched beyond what the law established

Pakistan's coveted prize is dialogue with India: Delhi must hold firm

PM Modi has made it clear that blood and water cannot flow together. This means that Pakistan will have to wait for the ‘prize’ of talks with India for a long time, for there is no indication that it is willing to give up terrorism

Delhi needs its own Monroe Doctrine before it’s too late

The China-Bangladesh agreement over Mongla Port should serve as a wake-up call for Delhi to define clear strategic red lines in its own neighbourhood

India needs a permanent strategic presence in Seychelles

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit will have deeper currency if India and Seychelles look to a bolder future with a shared strategic destiny

A new energy axis: Japan PM’s India visit couldn't have been more timely

Japan's reliance on strategic reserves and India’s push for domestic natural gas adoption indicate recognition of the need for longer-term investments in alternative energy sources, regional supply networks, and strategic stockpiling mechanisms

From diplomacy to maritime strategy: Seychelles anchors India’s Indian Ocean vision

As India's role in the Indian Ocean grows, partnerships with trusted Large Ocean States will become increasingly important. Few relationships illustrate that proposition better than India's partnership with Seychelles

Edible oil security: India's next strategic challenge

India does not need theatrical claims of self-sufficiency. It needs discipline: higher oilseed yields, carefully governed oil-palm expansion, diversified import channels, stronger farmer protection and a more honest view of the demand

Ramification | Synthetic drugs, strategic risk: India's frontline in the global narcotics war

The struggle against narcotics is no longer confined to fields of poppy and coca; it is increasingly being fought in supply chains and digital networks

Was Karna really humiliated for being a Suta?

Far from being a marginalised community, the Sutas served as trusted charioteers, ministers, warriors and custodians of royal tradition

Peace in West Asia demands structural fixes

Though an agreement has been reached between the US and Iran, lasting peace between the US and Iran is unlikely unless structural issues — nuclear, energy, Israel, and regional power rivalries — are resolved

Healthcare in India needs sunshine, not secrecy

In a healthcare system increasingly shaped by commercial incentives, transparency is not an attack on doctors. It is a protection for patients, ethical physicians and the credibility of medicine itself

‘Indo-Pacific’ is structural, not situational: India need not obsess over US terminology

While there is a thaw in US-China relations, China remains a strategic competitor to the US and continues to challenge its global leadership, even if it is on the decline

Pakistan’s budget confirms ‘a state for the military’ claim

Pakistan's latest budget raises a troubling question: Is it budgeting for the prosperity of its people or merely budgeting for the preservation of the state apparatus itself?

Congress’s greatest prime minister was the one it chose to erase

Few leaders changed India’s destiny as profoundly as PV Narasimha Rao; fewer still were so thoroughly erased by their own party. Remembering the former prime minister on his 105th birth anniversary

Imprisoned for life: Mahrang Baloch’s struggle calls for a stronger global conscience

True, much of the world is also guilty of excesses, but few follow targeted killing and looting as a principle of state policy. The world must stand up for Mahrang and, in that process, grow a collective conscience

‘The Unstoppables’: A mature debut on women who succeed against the odds

More than a collection of success stories, Navya Kumar’s book examines what it truly takes for Indian women to begin their entrepreneurial journeys

When the guns fall silent, diplomacy must lead

Military victories are transient. Political settlements alone endure. Nations may win battles through superior firepower, but they secure peace only through superior wisdom

Thoughts on India’s grand strategy: Rise can’t be achieved at a bargain, and it’s time for a new modus vivendi with China

Not de-Americanisation, India must ramp up internal balancing and develop a better working relationship with China to manage rise in a challenging environment

When money freezes progress: AI and the high cost of technological lock-in

History suggests that technological transitions do not happen because institutions become wiser on their own. They happen when the cost of staying becomes impossible to ignore or when a new approach becomes too effective to dismiss

Forty-one years too late: Canada has told only half the truth on Kanishka

Ottawa has finally admitted that Khalistanis carried out the Kanishka bombing in 1985; it still has not explained why they were allowed to thrive for so long

When a passport is not enough: Identity, law and belonging in modern India

The passport controversy has highlighted not a change in law, but a long-standing gap in India’s citizenship documentation framework

To ‘de-Americanise’, India should not romanticise China’s reality

New Delhi needs to understand why Beijing is more amiable today

Colombia’s Bukele moment: A new war on the cartels begins

The question is not whether Abelardo de la Espriella is willing to fight the cartels. Everyone knows he is. The real question is whether the Colombian state is still strong enough to win