India

How India’s Unofficial Blockade is Affecting Post-Earthquake Nepal

Naomi Mihara

A nation struggling to recover from one crisis has been hit by another

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s Memoir: Dialogue is Destiny

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy

Jihad Comes Close to Home

Tufail Ahmad

The news from Bangladesh should alert India to the threat from ISIS. It is real and immediate

The Futile Seat

Harsh V Pant

Modi should not waste his time on the UN

The Antique Lands

Srinath Raghavan

A majestic narrative on the Silk Roads retells global history where West and Central Asia form the axis of power play. The historian as a captivating storyteller is less convincing when he turns prophetic. The roads may not rise again

The River Sutra

Text and Photographs by Ritesh Uttamchandani

Bringing the Godavari and the Krishna together in Andhra Pradesh marks India’s first river-linking project. Has life too changed course?

The Power of Pursuit in the Age of Modi

Bharat Karnad

Dwarfed by doubts and hobbled by a lack of political will, India has for so long failed to play out its inherent strength. Can Prime Minister Narendra Modi unlock the great-power potential of the country? A new book by one of India’s foremost strategic thinkers anatomises the power paradigms of a nation in transition