What Trump is actually doing — and why India needs to press reform & reset

Global trade and tech order is changing, talks with US based on maintaining status quo will leave India more vulnerable
The West vs the Rest, a fiction

The soft power of the West remains a powerful magnet to those who see themselves as suffocating under the Eastern regimes
PM Modi in the UK: Let go of the bilateral baggage

For too long, Delhi and London have underestimated what they could do for each other.
After Iran, North Korea doubles down on deterrence

Pyongyang may believe that the US is more likely to intervene in countries that lack nuclear weapons or unable to develop them.
In South Korea, a painful reckoning with a history of ‘baby exporting’

As South Korea rebuilt itself and emerged as an ‘Asian Tiger’, it also created the world’s largest diaspora of adoptees. The questions raised by these adoptees have uncovered a history […]
Gender-based polarisation is making democratic consensus harder to achieve

Instead of supporting a party’s vision, voters increasingly vote against perceived threats to their identity