China & India aren’t best friends – but this one strategic relation might prevent WAR of Asian superpowers

An enduring visual of the second ‘informal summit’ between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the ancient...

India-Russia eternal friendship takes a Pacific turn

The twentieth annual summit between India and Russia on September 4 could have been ignored as a ho-hum affair. After all, the steadiness and...

Pakistan will regret stirring up Sikh nationalism in India

Operation Kashmir: Has Modi checkmated Pakistan?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is famed for taking the bull by the horns. He keeps his cards close to his chest and then unveils strategic...

Cricket world cup highlights South Asia’s fault lines

Foreign policy gives Modi the edge in India’s elections

An average of all the opinion polls conducted on the eve of voting (scheduled in phases between April 11 and May 19) predicted Modi’s ruling...

How Modi shifted the India-Pakistan paradigm

The two South Asian rivals have fought three wars and one quasi-war over the last seven decades, besides engaging in periodic shorter clashes over...

India versus Pakistan in the court of global opinion

Victory strengthens Hasina's foreign policy hand

A brave new US Congress or same old hypocrisy?

Since the mid-1990s, the US Congress has abdicated its oversight of the executive’s foreign and national security policies owing to increased...

Trump's willingness to antagonize the world triggers China-India rapprochement

But given that Trump has also been targeting other countries over trade, defense and energy security, China has company in a lot of disgruntled...

Modi defies Trump to edge closer to Putin