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…
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…
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…
India, Kuwait and the Making of Indo-Gulf Strategic Arc in an Era of Geopolitical Transition
A Minister in a Burning Gulf The Gulf entered the summer of 2026 as the epicentre of global anxiety. Iranian…
EAM Dr. Jaishankar’s July 2026 Manama Visit and the Consolidation of India’s Gulf Strategy
When External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar arrived in Manama on 6 July 2026, the second destination of a Gulf…
India and Qatar: Civilisational Affinity, Strategic Trust and Humanitarian Diplomacy
Long before the vocabulary of strategic partnership entered the lexicon of modern diplomacy, the waters of the Arabian Sea had…
Jakarta Moment: India, Indonesia and the New Geometry of Indo-Pacific
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Indonesia from 6 to 8 July 2026 marks the moment at which the India-Indonesia…
Beyond Bali-Nalanda Bonhomie: Emerging Contours of India-Indonesia Relation
India’s Prime minister, Narendra Modi’s forthcoming visit to Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelagic country, is pivotal as it is poised to…
India and Japan: Bound by History, Driven by Strategy
On the afternoon of 2 July 2026, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Japan’s Sanae…
New Delhi’s Quiet Inflection: BRICS, Non-Traditional Security, and a Multipolar Security Architecture
On the morning of 23 June 2026, in a New Delhi rendered torpid by the pre-monsoon heat, India’s National Security…
