March 21, 2021
India’s Smart Vaccine Diplomacy
As countries scramble to secure Covid-19 vaccines, ugly expressions like “vaccine race” and “vaccine nationalism” have entered the global lexicon.
February 10, 2021
After Myanmar’s coup
Until recently, the last time Myanmar’s military supervised a general election whose outcome it didn’t like was back in 1990.
January 16, 2021
Narendra Modi’s Potemkin Democracy
Indian legislators woke up in the new year to two realisations. First, the annual winter session of parliament, from which they should just have been emerging, had not taken place at all. And,...
September 22, 2020
India’s Silenced Parliament
After a nearly six-month hiatus, the Indian parliament will reconvene in mid-September at a time of deepening national crisis. But I fear that it may be unable to hold the country’s failing...
August 13, 2020
Whose India?
As India prepares to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of its independence on August 15, a growing number of Indians are coming to believe that the battle to preserve the essence of the country born...
July 28, 2020
India’s China strategy is changing
After last month’s clash in the Ladakh region’s Galwan Valley killed 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops, the two countries are settling in for a prolonged standoff on their...
May 14, 2020
The Kerala Model
As India’s 1.3 billion people struggle to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the country’s 28 states stands head and shoulders above the rest.
March 15, 2020
Remembering the Forgotten Gandhi
March 12 marked the 90th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in India’s nationalist struggle: the start of the Dandi March,
February 19, 2020
Pariah India
After India launched far-reaching economic reforms in 1991, its stature in the world rose steadily.
January 9, 2020
What Happened to India?
It’s a question I hear increasingly these days. International news media report on repression in Kashmir, mounting Hindu chauvinism, widespread protests against new laws, assaults on women, and more.