Since achieving independence, India has consistently supported anti-colonial and anti-racist liberation struggles in Africa. While the earlier relationship was built on the legacy of colonialism, a wave of liberalization and privatization in India in the 1990s led to a decisive shift in its Africa engagement toward trade and economic matters. Read More Here
China will not strategically court India by discarding its own territory. India does not have the capital to engage in economic and trade consumption with China. It has never supported China in strategy. New Delhi severely overestimates its strategic leverage. Read More Here
Americans should be paying close attention to the politics of India. The U.S. is not Iceland; it’s huge, diverse, and tough to govern. Only one other country with comparable size and complexity has given democracy a sustained, multigenerational shot. If the system fails in India, it can certainly fail closer to home. Read More Here
Thousands of people fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar have crossed into India’s northeastern states, leading to worries among officials there that the region could become a staging post for pro-democracy activists and stoke instability. Read More Here
When historians reflect on India’s experience of COVID-19, they will puzzle over the contrast between the first wave of the virus that struck in 2020 and the far worse second wave that descended on the country a year later. Read Here | Foreign Affairs
As India continues to be ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, its preoccupation with containing that disease has provided China with a golden opportunity to alter the region’s geopolitical architecture discreetly but effectively. Thus New Delhi must recalibrate its national and regional policies to address the deepening fault lines in South Asia. Read Here | Asia […]
The pandemic is likely to stay for longer. The first round impact will be on overall economic growth. The second round fallout, the one which is more worrisome, will see deepening of the structural fault lines that have already set in; growing income inequality, deepening digital divide, joblessness and further erosion of the country’s already […]
Unfortunately, Modi failed to recalibrate India’s dynamics when the economic sun was shining. An environment sparking comparisons to Dante or, at the very best, Charles Dickens is not promising for getting reforms done. Or for where India’s economy might find itself 10 years from now. Read Here | Asia Times
India’s strategic community was in a frenzy last month after USS John Paul Jones carried out a freedom of navigation exercise near India’s Lakshadweep Islands. Indian observers were mystified by the timing of maneuver, coming as it did at a moment when U.S.-Indian relations are on a high. Read Here | WarOnTheRocks
The Indian military is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation. These changes are made possible primarily due to the creation, in December 2019, of the post of a chief of defense staff. Armed with a mandate to create joint theater commands, the current chief of defense staff is at the forefront of an attempted structural and […]
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