

Modi has turned the previous UPA government’s China policy on its head.

The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement would help Indian forces, especially its navy, to operate far from subcontinental shores at a moment when New Delhi has to secure its widely dispersed interests in the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Engagement with the U.S. defense establishment is only an important first step towards Delhi’s strategic appreciation of the stakes in the development of artificial intelligence and associated technologies.

New Delhi has been tentative on the international stage despite a number of factors that demand a stronger Indian role in the world.

India needed to drop its posturing and step up political and security engagement in the Gulf.

All states indulge in spying, political and commercial. India and Pakistan should acknowledge their respective spies and bring them home through spy swaps when they get caught.

India and the EU have a greater chance of success if they strengthen their relations and improve bilateral strategic coordination on regional affairs.

BG Verghese’s last book is a pragmatic reminder of the necessity of an India-Pakistan reconciliation.

A rising China and the anti-India resentments of Kathmandu’s hill elite have the potential to neutralize, over the longer term, some of Delhi’s natural strategic advantages in Nepal.

The U.S. president sees the world as a messy place not always amenable to the use of American force.