Hindol Sengupta

Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning author of nine books. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Editor-at-Large for Fortune India. He has been a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford.

What India wants: global influence and freedom of choice

Hindol Sengupta Nov 19, 2024

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third successive term in office started in August on a subdued note when his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to procure a third consecutive full majority and Modi had to form a coalition government…

Nationalism with Indian characteristics: the politics of a cultural revival

Hindol Sengupta Nov 23, 2022

Like many other things, nationalism in India is both similar and very different than that of the only country comparable in scale to its 1.4 billion people – China, which has 100 million more inhabitants. If the Chinese Communist Party and…

Beyond curry and cricket: the Australia-India relationship and the Indo-Pacific

Hindol Sengupta Jun 23, 2022

India’s Minister for trade and commerce Piyush Goyal described India and Australia as 'brothers' as he and his Australian counterpart Dan Tehan concluded, earlier this year, a major trade deal between the two countries. It was India’s first…

How the Ukraine war has strengthened India’s digital sovereignty ambition

Hindol Sengupta Apr 3, 2022

It was the SWIFT sanctions that did it. In response to the military operations in Ukraine, the European Commission has disconnected Russia’s major banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which is…

Why India and China are deadlocked in the Himalayas

Hindol Sengupta Jun 8, 2020

It was a Himalayan border dispute, of the kind that is unfolding today, that was one of the key triggers of the 1962 war between India and China. India lost, and since then no amount of trade (more than $92 billion in 2018-19) has been able…

Prev Next