China’s culpability in Pulwama massacre is unmistakable

The Dalai Lama recently told this newspaper that due to Chinese pressure, no Buddhist country, with the sole exception of the nominally Buddhist...

Awkward hole in India's election debate - foreign policy

India’s confused and contradictory signals are only emboldening Pakistan

The shackles of history in a democracy

India’s security interests are at risk from US capitulation to Taliban

Trump’s ‘surrender’ to Taliban compromises India’s national security

India has to shield its vital interests in Afghanistan, or else developments there would adversely impinge on Indian security, including in the...

Pak Plans

Pakistan even uses the Indus Water Treaty, the Indus system's largest rivers gifted to it from India, as a stick to beat us with. Why do we put up...

India's security interests are at risk from US capitulation to Taliban

This year is Afghanistan’s 40th year in a row as an active war zone. Betrayal, violence and surrender have defined Afghanistan’s history for long,...

The non-violence myth: India’s founding story bestows upon it a quixotic national philosophy and enduring costs

Trump’s Gift to the Taliban

China's new age of uncertainty

China's lonely rise: After decades of heady growth, Beijing is suddenly facing resistance at home and abroad

Remake the terms of the Indus treaty

India cannot satisfy Pakistan enough without reworking the Indus Water Treaty

Despite India’s scrupulous observance of the treaty provisions and its concessions, Pakistan accuses it of not fully complying with the treaty’s...

Why isolation of indigenous groups is crucial today

The remote, coral-fringed North Sentinel Island made headlines last year, after an American Christian missionary’s covert expedition to convert its...

The vital isolation of indigenous groups

China is at a crossroads: Limits of its Party-led model are showing

A rising power without allies

China is at a crossroads: On 70th anniversary of PRC’s founding, limits of its Party-led model are showing

Four decades ago the Chinese Communist Party, under its new paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, decided to subordinate ideology to wealth creation,...

The Vital Isolation of Indigenous Groups

China's dam-building rage is threatening the whole of Asia, and India has the most to lose

China’s unconventional war is inflicting greater damage on India

A mortal threat to Asia's rise

The US’s new free and open Indo-Pacific strategy

View: India’s Kartarpur headache

Treat China like the bully it is

India’s Kartarpur headache: New Delhi must proactively thwart Pakistan’s effort to revive Sikh militancy in Punjab

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently raked up the issue as to why Kartarpur today is in Pakistan, not India. At Simla in 1972, for example, India...

Evangelist's fatal exploits highlight threat to indigenous tribes

China damming India

China is the world’s biggest dam builder, with the country boasting more dams than the rest of the world combined. China is also the world’s...

The John Chau episode shows India’s internal security is porous

The John Chau episode shows India's internal security is porous

The unlawful, and fatal, expedition of a young American evangelist adventurer to a remote island that is home to the world’s last known...

China's muscle has forced India to rethink its maritime strategy

While India watches with concern Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is boldly visiting the Maldives on the day its...

Sri Lanka - Democracy in Danger

A Concert of Indo-Pacific Democracies

We need a rules-based Indo-Pacific

Belt And Roadblocks: India’s China stance vindicated

Belt and roadblocks: India’s stance vindicated as China’s grandiose BRI plans run into resistance

Belt and roadblocks: India’s stance vindicated as China’s grandiose BRI plans run into resistance

Sierra Leone has become the latest country to scrap a Belt and Road (BRI) project, cancelling a $318 million airport deal with China. After smooth...

The linchpins for a rules-based Indo-Pacific

The Great Asian Game-Changer: Why PM Modi's Tokyo visit could cement a Japan-India strategic alliance

Pakistan’s double game stymies Afghan peace

Natural allies

An intense pace of top-level meetings in recent months has sought to reduce Sino-Indian and Sino-Japanese tensions. The Beijing summit between ...

Why Mike Pence is playing bad cop against China

Pakistan's double game stymies Afghan peace

The US war in Afghanistan has already lasted more than twice as long as World War II, exacting a staggering cost in blood and treasure. With the...

The End of America’s China Fantasy

Maldives: India should not rest on its oars

Maldives: India should not rest on its oars

Following President Abdulla Yameen’s surprise defeat in the Maldivian election, the air of self-congratulation in New Delhi risks obscuring the...

The Beijing backlash begins

Ambitious but short on transparency