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.

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

Hindol Sengupta Mar 31, 2020

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…

How the Kashmir dispute has gone “glocal”

Hindol Sengupta Nov 18, 2019

The latest quarrel between India’s main political parties – the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC) – was triggered by a tweet by Jeremy Corbyn. The British Labour Party leader tweeted that a team of…

The Kashmir conundrum

Hindol Sengupta Aug 12, 2019

For seventy years, the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir has been divided between the warring South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan. Since both acquired nuclear weapons in 1998, the Line of Control which forms a truce line between…

The India-Pakistan question and Narendra Modi’s new mandate

Hindol Sengupta Jun 6, 2019

When he first took his oath of office in May 2014, India's Narendra Modi innovated to invite all heads of state of SAARC (South Asian Association for Cooperation) to his inauguration ceremony. On the occasion of his second inauguration in…

How India-Pakistan peace is being altered by demographic change – and Indian politics

Hindol Sengupta Mar 18, 2019

The South Asian nuclear-armed neighbors are at war once again. This might sound dangerously like déjà vu to some but that would be unwise. The two countries are closer to nuclear holocaust than ever before, and the answer lies in…

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