Which way Does Davos take us?
Prime Minister Modi goes on to show that his foreign policy is driven by the need and will to make India into a formidable force to reckon with in...
Can the Indian Elephant Contain the Chinese Dragon: Why ASEAN Matters so Much for India?
India’s share in world trade is stuck at around 1.8 percent since 2011, whereas that for China is close to 12 percent. For the Indian elephant to catch the...
China Factor in Trade and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Essential for Economic Growth
Thailand’s ambassador to India and a key official convening the ASEAN-India summit this week, Chutintorn Sam Gongsakdi said before the media that India needs to focus on the China...
Political Kite Flying, App Looking at the Big Picture, Child-Friendly Police Station, Mice Have a Field Day
Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu, two PMs, bond over kite-flying at Sabarmati Ashram and they paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi. The App WeCroak is born of Bhutanese folklore saying that to be...
Will the Indo-Israel Bilateral Engagements Create New Avenues in International Relations?
As India and Israel faced each other in impeccable, vaunted acknowledgement, it has become possible if not easier to find intersections of interest; such intersections in the process of...
India-ASEAN Economic Ties for the Future
In September 2009 India had signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the ASEAN to promote economic ties. It was seen as a major foray into a formidable regional...
Fissure in the US-Pak Relations and the Changing Dunes of Geopolitics in South Asia
Can we draw linkages between the announcement by Trump and the subsequent announcement by Pakistan’s central bank the State Bank of Pakistan that all arrangements for using Chinese yuan...
Indo-Bangla Relations, Rohingya Crisis and the Rakhine State: What would bring the Two Friends Together Again?
It was Modi’s public statement during his Myanmar visit in September, which had led Dhaka to protest. India had always supported Myanmar in the international fora as Modi had...
Will the Emergence of the Left in Nepal Erode Indo-Nepal Friendship to Benefit China Strategically?
That China has been assiduously wooing Kathmandu has been all too clear but that the people of Nepal would turn away from India through the democratic process was not...
Crisis of Western Human Rights: No Answer for the Suffering Millions Globally
Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) critiques human rights, which is essentially a Western concept. His erudite research shows how the West has been conveniently shifting the goal posts, often using...