Thank you, Donald Trump. No, really. I mean it. As someone who spent three decades in olive green defending India’s borders and another decade analysing geopolitics, I never thought I’d be penning a thank-you note to an American president. But…
The second Donald Trump presidency has precipitated one of the most dramatic reversals in US-India relations in recent memory. What began as a “defining partnership of the 21st century” has rapidly deteriorated into a strategic standoff marked by punitive tariffs,…
The evolving strategic scenario in Asia, marked by China’s military ascendancy and America’s recalibrated foreign-policy approach, demands a radical reassessment of India’s long-term geopolitical positioning. However, as someone who has spent decades observing the strategic landscape from India’s vantage point,…
The appointment of 38-year-old Sergio Gor as both US ambassador to India and special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs marks a watershed moment in India-US relations – and not necessarily for the better. As someone who has witnessed…
The arrival of China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, in New Delhi on August 18 for the 24th round of special representatives’ talks on the disputed border represents far more than routine diplomacy. It signals a strategic recalibration of Asian geopolitics,…
In the annals of military strategy, there exists a fundamental principle that nations ignore at their peril: threats, like tide, rarely announce their arrival. Today, as India witnesses an epochal shift from strategic restraint to decisive retaliation through Operation Sindoor, a…
Pakistan’s military spokesman, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, recently declared, while talking to a western media outlet, that Islamabad would strike “deeper within India” and “start from the east” in any future conflict. This wasn’t mere sabre-rattling. When viewed alongside…
China’s audacious decision to construct the world’s largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo – just upstream from where it enters India as the Brahmaputra – represents far more than an engineering marvel. It is a calculated geopolitical manoeuvre that…
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understand modern warfare in South…
As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispute has resurfaced between China and India over who possesses the authority to determine his…
