Opinion

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Bangladesh After the Faultlines: Can Foreign Policy Hold the Republic Together?

When I wrote in Goa Chronicle about the emerging faultlines within Bangladesh, the argument was not alarmist. It was diagnostic. Bangladesh was not collapsing, but it was shifting. Beneath...

Editors Note

AI for Humanity, Not Hegemony: Modi’s Moral Compass for the Machine Age

At a time when the world is oscillating between awe and anxiety over Artificial Intelligence, Prime Minister Narendra...

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The Unbroken Delta: Bangladesh, Strategic Signalling and the Question of Fracture

It began with a sentence. When Muhammad Yunus recently referred to the “Seven Sisters” of India in the same...

Editors Note

Beyond Caste and Creed: Rediscovering the Unifying Identity of Bharatiya

There is a strange habit we Indians have developed over the decades. We look at each other not...

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Beyond the Tariff Number: How Bharat Learned to Negotiate Without Bowing

It was announced in a burst of headlines. “US cuts reciprocal tariffs on India to 18%.” Markets reacted first….green ticks,...

Russia and China

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Deepak Vohra - 15/12/2021

Vladimir Putin, the Russian super strongman, flew into New Delhi for a few hours in December 2021 (his first bilateral trip outside Russia since...

India Russia relations

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Deepak Vohra - 07/12/2021

Dobro Pozhalovat Vladimir! On 6 December 2021 India welcomed a steadfast friend, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin The geopolitical situation in our region is churning...

China’s cratering economy

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Deepak Vohra - 06/12/2021

China wants to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Japan, Australia, and Canada are not happy China’s economy is tanking, with Bank...

Is Srilanka a Chinese colony?

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Deepak Vohra - 05/11/2021

Sri Lanka, that beautiful little island to our south, faces a multiple whammy (it was once called Serendip). It will dip into its foreign...

Counting the cost of the Chinese Virus

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Deepak Vohra - 21/10/2021

The virus has devastated global economies. Some will suffer more than others The pandemic struck at a time when Latin America’s economies were already facing...