India

The threat of a Western-aligned intellectual establishment

Renowned international affairs scholar C Raja Mohan writes in Foreign Policy magazine’s Spring 2023 edition: “The West has an interest in a stronger India that can counter growing Chinese and Russian influence…

What’s killing India’s nuclear scientists?

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the architect of India’s nuclear program, died in a plane crash over the Swiss Alps in January 1966 while travelling to London. He had been a vociferous advocate of the testing of nuclear explosives, especial- ly in the aftermath of the first Chinese nuclear test in October 1964.

Rajnath, Russian defence minister at 21st Indo-Russian military cooperation meet

The 21st session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military & Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-M&MTC) was co-chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh and Russian Defence Minister Mr Andrey Belousov in Moscow on December 10, 2024.

2023 state elections and the road to 2024

With the new year India has entered a breathless election cycle. 10 states are going to the polls along with a slew of Parliamentary by-polls in the coming months. Soon after, in May 2024, the BJP will complete a historic ten years in power. The ruling party will then battle it out at the hustings against Congress and regional parties to remain in government.

India’s Unkept Promises and the Road Forward

In its 75 years as an independent country, India presents all of the same contrasts in its society and culture, indeed in the physical appearance of its people, that it did in the immediate aftermath of two centuries of colonial rule.