VK Shashikumar

A close look at the strategic Shifts in India’s geopolitical landscape

Operation Sindoor has strengthened India’s global standing as a decisive counter-terror state. It projects an image of a confident India that can leverage its growing military capabilities – precision aviation, modern jets, intelligence and space assets, and a blue-water navy – to secure its interests For Pakistan, the operation was a setback in terms of international reputation

Sudan enjoys quiet sympathies from hardline networks in Pakistan – a country that itself has tens of thousands of jihadists and a history of “strategic depth” doctrine with friendly Islamist regimes

The Pahalgam massacre has raised new concerns about regional stability

Journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi is in the dock for his alleged role in the terror attack on the vehicle of an Israeli diplomat in Delhi on 13 February. But he is no shady ‘freelancer’ working in obscurity, as the police are making it out to be

“Why am in jail? Where is the evidence against me?”

“Usha Martin and Tata Steel are certainly involved... [though] their involvement is invisible.”

Former chief minister of Jharkhand Madhu Koda speaks to Open in the first on-record interview since his arrest.

The question why Madhu Koda was charged with money laundering is as unsettling as the supposed evidence against him. Speaking to Open, Jharkhand’s former Chief Minister is loud and clear that he is a victim of corporate greed in conspiracy with venal politics

“Where is the evidence against me?,” asks former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda in the first on-record interview since his arrest.