Narendra Modi’s mixed records: ambition and gambles
Over the years, Modi has delivered some radical change, a couple of dramatic failures, all while keeping his reputation as the country’s most trusted political leader intact
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India’s Pacific opportunity
Narendra Modi first went to Australia in 2014, just after he came to power, and became the first Indian prime minister to travel to country in 28 years. Some critics complained that it was because his old friend and energy tycoon Gautam…
The price of friends: India’s calculations on Afghanistan
In the 1892 short story “Kabuliwala” (the man from Kabul) by Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a dry fruit vendor from the capital of Afghanistan develops a tender friendship with a little girl in Calcutta. The vendor is then…
The Indian Ocean: an “Indian idea”
This thought has been brewing in the corridors of power at Raisina Hill these days. Diplomats whisper about it, while at least one prominent not-for-profit India Foundation, which counts two sitting cabinet ministers as mentors, has started…
India and the ISIS threat – mythical no more
Even more than for the recent terrorist attack on an air force base in northern India, these days the government in Delhi worries about the around 150 Indian nationals whom intelligence agencies are tracking for links with the Syria - and…