Appeasement has a bad name in India. Time is ripe to use it in foreign policy
A strategic culture that puts a premium on assertion and displays of strength may have been more counterproductive than beneficial to Indian interests in some cases.
The Man With the Brush: How States Rewrite Their Own Past
And why the scepticism we bring to China’s history-writing has to be turned on our own
US negotiating position is brute force. Iran’s is the power to hurt
Given the challenges, risks, costs, time-insensitivity, and unguaranteed success, it will not be surprising if enthusiasm about the blockade declines in the coming weeks.
Can Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s ‘pragmatic hardliner’, deliver a deal? Peace talks in Islamabad today
Why the recent US-Iran conflict is not a T-20 match with an instant winner but a Test series — a prolonged contest to solve countless disputes.
Ready, set, tariff: Donald Trump’s bargaining chip and Delhi’s chance to reshape bilateral trade
India had trouble resolving trade disputes with the US during Trump’s first term. Now, with BRICS countries being at the receiving end of the President-elect’s tariff threats, India must prepare […]
India’s tech diplomacy — from Nehru to Modi
Modi government’s progress with the US is not the first time Delhi has put technology on the top of its diplomatic and strategic agenda. But today, both domestic and external […]