The Cost of Localising BRICS

As Modi Embraces the World

Limits of personalised diplomacy

Knocking at Nuclear Doors

India’s unsuccessful effort at Seoul to gain NSG membership offers lessons on increasing the country’s global clout

Around the World in Weighty Days

There is much to worry about in the age of higher volatility and lesser leadership

Warning: China Is Going Ideological

Ideology is never innocent. Flirting with it is to release forces that may get out of control

Modi and Pope Francis: India’s Evangelist and God’s Pauper in a Moral Fable

Power Parade in Beijing

With history as backdrop, China flexes it military muscle. Is India taking notice?

ROMANCING THE DRAGON

Modi played the indulgent host to perfection as he tried to bond with the visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping. Can the mutually suspicious Asian powers overcome the trust deficit?

A Tale of Two Leaders

So will Xi update a classic by the Chairman: Let a billion dreams come true? That will be a Xi change

The World of Modi

It is China, a First World power with a Third World mindset, that will test Modi’s still evolving art of internationalism