Hindol Sengupta

Nationalism with Indian characteristics: the politics of a cultural revival

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

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

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

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…

India’s moment of reckoning – even beyond tackling the pandemic

In India 1.3 billion people have been under complete lockdown since March 24th when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day complete ceasing of activity, except the movement of essential goods and services. In the world’s biggest…

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