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Annus horribilis: 2025 was the year India learned it wasn't indispensable
It is the logical consequence of foreign policy built on a decade of illusion rather than the realities of power. The question is whether anyone in the government has the courage to admit it.
05 Dec 2025
Mumbai’s toxic air: everyone’s responsible, no one’s accountable
A city choking on its own growth, trapped in a system with little accountability. Separately, India’s plan to ramp up in its solar manufacturing standards needs to factor in all the stakeholders.
04 Dec 2025
Govt to table bills to impose new levies on tobacco products, pan masala
The Central Excise Amendment Bill and The Health Security se National Security Cess Bill are listed for introduction today by the finance minister.
30 Nov 2025
MAGA’s battle against Indian-Americans: wrong in its particulars but effective alright
The far-right’s anti-India narrative offers simple answers to complex problems while drawing on real grievances that many Americans share
07 Nov 2025
The 1.5°C limit has been breached. Where will COP take us next?
The window to prevent the worst impacts of climate change has shut. The heat is on global leaders at the annual climate talks in Brazil to deliver more than just theatre.
05 Nov 2025
When it comes to lobbying in the US, Indian-Americans are not Jewish Americans
India tried to build an Israel-style lobby in Washington, DC. But money, race and ideology have kept Indian-Americans from becoming a political force.
10 Oct 2025
From Kathmandu's ashes: A blueprint for India's regional renaissance
Nepal's democratic uprising offers India a choice to either continue with its failed transactional diplomacy or embrace the patient institution-building that South Asia desperately needs.
12 Sept 2025
Modi’s Tianjin visit is a mirror of India’s domestic decline
These domestic failures—breeding economic inequality, tepid growth, poor research and development, low productivity and declining manufacturing—eventually constrain India's international leverage, forcing reactive diplomacy disguised as strategic autonomy.
05 Sept 2025
Why the world’s fourth-largest economy struggles to be heard
On its 79th Independence Day, a road map to reclaim India’s rightful place on the global stage.
14 Aug 2025
Will it? Will it not? An India-US trade deal has no easy pathways ahead
Whatever be the outcome, the India-US trade deal's impact on economic growth and sovereignty cannot be separated.
04 Jul 2025