C Raja Mohan writes | Iran after Khamenei will be shaped by the America question

For realists, the question is about the nature and degree of change in Iran, not the inevitability of it. Iran’s relationship with America sits at the heart of the unfinished […]
Beyond US and China, India and others are building a ‘G Minus Two’ for Indo-Pacific

Every major Asian nation, including India and the three countries Modi is visiting this week, knows that Chinese power in Asia and the Indo-Pacific is a reality that must be […]
India isn’t the freeloader the US makes it out to be

The US takes India’s brightest students, trained in our best institutions that are often subsidised, charges them hefty fees, and keeps the smartest.
At 250, the US can still reinvent itself — and the world

American history cautions us against writing off a republic that has repeatedly reinvented both its capitalism and the politics needed to govern it at home and lead it abroad
Don’t read too much into Bangladesh PM’s China visit

Where a neighbouring leader chooses to go first tells little about the state of a relationship, and we must stop treating itineraries as foreign policy outcomes
India Should Stop Panicking About Trump

The emotionalism in Indian politics obscures the strategic logic of U.S.-India ties.