Hindol SenguptaThe Curious Case of General Raheel SharifBedouins taking aim by Adolf Schreyer, 1828-1899; source: Bonhams Ensconced deep in the story of Pakistan’s fall out with Saudi Arabia is...
Hindol SenguptaWhy has Pakistan lost friends in the Middle East? Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan driving the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman as a special gesture of welcome during a...
Hindol SenguptaWhy the tales of Marthanda Varma and Pazhassi Raja could reform the study of international relationsAn artist's impression of the Dutch Commander Eustachius De Lannoy to Marthanda Varma. James Palmer, a British editor at Foreign Policy...
Abhyoday Sisodia The Decline of US Hegemony in AsiaIn the recent past, the US Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group carried out high-end dual-carrier exercises...
Nishtha SatyamShifting Global Gears Towards Inclusive Entrepreneurship: A Shared MandateThis year, on the occasion of Entrepreneurs Day on 21st August, we are waking up to a very different world. As continents are ravaged by...
Vikramjit BanerjeeRethinking International LawA painting of an old English courtroom. Conceptualising International Law The conception of law that we know today is deeply problematic....
Tanya SpisbahIndia: Turning Crisis into Opportunity with ‘inclusive independence’ and a human-centric world view Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving the independence day speech on August 15, 2020. This weekend Indian Prime Minister Narendra...
Mrittunjoy Guha MajumdarTalibanisation, ISI and AfghanistanThis is an exclusive interview where Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, speaks to Khushnood Nabizada,...
Mrittunjoy Guha MajumdarTo Compete More Effectively in the World, India needs to become QuTech-friendlyThis is the quantum age. With the diversification of theoretical and experimental forays into realising quantum technology (QuTech), the...
Ahmed YounesEgypt on Two Fronts: An Egyptian View on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Libyan CrisisEgypt, a veritable regional power, is facing two pressing challenges in the international arena. The first challenge to Egypt is an...
Hindol SenguptaThe Global History of RamAs India starts the process of building a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, based on its oldest epic, the Ramayana, it is important to...
Lavanya VemsaniIndia’s Foreign Policy Needs to Escape the Legacy of Colonial EntanglementsIndia is currently trapped in numerous foreign policy entanglements dictated by her colonized past. Upon independence India continued and...
Ishan Dhar & Deekhit BhattacharyaThe Curse of the Custodian: Jordan’s Fragile Stability & The Deal of the CenturyExecutive Summary The piece intends to explore why certain states such as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have emerged as ‘pillars of...
Hindol SenguptaThe weaponisation of fake history to divide India and Israel and neo-racism on a Nazi symbol Why Hindus and Jews have no reason to quarrel on a Nazi sign. And why the use of the wrong word for the Nazi symbol is racist. The...
Abhinav SeetharamanRecreating a New Hong KongOn June 30, China officially placed into effect a controversial new national security law for Hong Kong. The law has been met with...
Mrittunjoy Guha MajumdarĀtmanirbharta in Arming the Indian Army: Defence Indigenisation in India'atmanirbharta' means the virtue of self-realiance in Hindi The recent Galwan faceoff in Ladakh brought to the fore the momentous shift...
Hindol SenguptaInside China and India's Battle for Buddhism Source: British Museum In his 2017 book, The Souls of China, the Canadian scholar, and longtime Beijing-er, Ian Johnson makes the point...
Prashant Hosur SuhasWhat is the Contribution of the Mahabharata to Strategic Thought?The Mahabharata is one of the world’s oldest and longest epics. At the heart of it is a dramatic and apocalyptic war, and a rousing...
Lakshmi KaulWhat I See When I See India’s Policy on Jammu & Kashmir as a Kashmiri Pandit A landmark announcement on August 5, 2019 took the world, and all of India, by surprise. The news of the neutering of Article 370,...
Urvi TembeyVIDEO: The Paradoxical Use of 'Powerlessness to Attain Power' in Contemporary Trade NegotiationsIn this exclusive interview Amrita Narlikar, the president of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies and Professor at the...