The Muscat Consummation: India, Oman and the Completion of Indo-Gulf Strategic Arc
Dr. S. Jaishankar’s Visit to the Sultanate of Oman as the Concluding Leg of India’s Four-Nation Gulf Diplomacy Amid the…
Xi Zhongxun’s Forgotten Model of Respect
In the long arc of Chinese Communist Party history, Xi Zhongxun occupies a curious place. He was a revolutionary, a…
The Melbourne Consensus: Cricket Diplomacy and the Strategic Consolidation of India – Australia Relations
Cricket has long supplied India and Australia with a shared emotional vocabulary, and in Melbourne in July 2026 it supplied…
The Phoenix Gambit: Sheikh Hasina’s Calculated Bid to Rise from the Ashes of Exile or the Final Act of a Fallen Titan?
There is a particular theatre to South Asian politics that the West often struggles to decode — a theatre in…
Operation Hard Ball and India’s Crucial Role in Borderless Enforcement
The US Justice Department’s Operation ‘Hard Ball’, announced on 7 July, is being read across capitals as a demonstration of what…
Geography Still Rules the Gulf
For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been treated as a narrow stretch of water with outsized geopolitical importance. Yet…
Strategic Diversification: Dimensions of India- New Zealand Relations
With Prime minister Narendra Modi of India making his first state visit to New Zealand, stakes and expectations are high in enhancing the bilateral…
France and Germany’s Far-Right Challenge Europe’s Future
Europe is at a crossroads, and the future of the continent depends to a large extent on the future of…
The Mirage of Autonomy: Why Tibetans Must Confront Reality
There is a painful truth that Tibetans must face. Those who still believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will one…
China’s Pacific Missile Launch Raises Regional Alarm
China’s test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile with a dummy warhead from a nuclear-powered submarine into the Pacific Ocean on…
