
A discussion of India’s battle to contain the novel coronavirus, the Modi government’s latest economic package, and the pandemic’s foreign policy fall-out.

China poses a challenge to both India and the United States, causing New Delhi to deepen its ties with Washington while appearing cordial with Beijing. India’s core strategy is likely to succeed because Washington sees that strategic altruism is a good policy, given both India’s constraints and U.S. needs.

Early in the outbreak, government researchers forecast several high-risk scenarios that were downplayed or ignored in public messaging.

Although it may appear more unstable and violent, the “new normal” in India-Pakistan relations following the 2019 Balakot crisis may in fact closely resemble the prior situation.

At the national level, the current crisis consolidates a populist rapport between a person, Modi, and a fictional representation of the people.

As the Indian government prepares to gradually dial down the economic freeze on May 3, politics, too, must emerge from its hibernation.

Tehran is very resentful of the way India, bowing to Trump’s America, has stopped importing its oil and is losing interest in Chabahar
One of the main problems rural India will face and is already facing is the fact that most of the migrant laborer’s were sending back to their villages 1/3rd or half of what they were earning in the cities and this money will not be there anymore.

The nation-wide lockdown was a sudden decision announced by the Prime Minister. It has huge implications for society, the poor in particular.

As its number of coronavirus cases grows, India is just beginning to expand diagnostic and manufacturing capacities. The road ahead will be long.