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Sushant Singh
Sushant Singh
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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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.
Recent Editions
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
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
Older Editions
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
With its Trump connection, Pakistan’s crypto pivot is a headache for India
Pakistan’s embrace of crypto—fuelled by Chinese energy, sanctioned by the state and linked to the Trump family—has opened a new front in South Asia’s battle for digital dominance.
06 Jun 2025
Chinese military tech breakthroughs in focus after Operation Sindoor
China’s tech performance in Pakistan’s war theatre calls for India to rethink its fragmented arsenal and future-proof its defence posture.
19 May 2025
The IMF loan to Pakistan and the limits of India’s leverage
After shouting in the void, the lesson for New Delhi is clear: if it wants influence at the IMF, it must build coalitions and economic heft
11 May 2025