Is India moving on a path towards segregating society, enclaving economic space in a way that essentially excludes the majority from the development orbit?
A leader of the Indian separatist group Ulfa indicates he is ready for peace talks with the government. Unconfirmed reports emerge that China has stationed troops in northeast North Korea. All this and more in today’s security briefing.
As India sets about generating more than twelve times its current level of nuclear power by 2035, it seldom encounters countries insisting on the letter of the Nuclear NPT.
The killing of a young Kashmiri heralds renewed militancy in the Kashmir valley after summer's protest movement.
The west, unlike India, for example, has unwittingly created a wedge between ‘straightness’ and ‘gayness’ that makes it difficult for society to accept homosexuality as ‘normal’.
The Indian Prime Minister might be enjoying the fact that he is now in a position to offer the American president billions of dollars worth of jobs. But he would be better off concentrating on the strategic thinking worthy of a great power
India can no longer be ignored. It is a necessary and valuable partner, and this is something on which the rest of the world can take their lead from the US. But how will Delhi respond?
To some observers, the recent Ayodhya verdict and lack of mass ethnic violence in India indicates the softening of nationalist tensions. But the subtler, more powerful and pervasive side of Hindu Nationalism in civil society will ensure that this is not the twilight of ethnic strife.
With the Commonwealth Games underway, Satbir Singh traces the psychology underpinning India's celebration of and embarrassment at the event.
An Indian court’s ruling on the Hindu-Muslim dispute over the sacred site of Ayodhya sheds light on the relationship between two forms of rationality in India, says Deep K Datta-Ray.
China's military and diplomatic expansion points to an intensifying arms race between the world's two most populous countries, argues Rajeev Sharma.
Kashmir rocked by intensification of violence. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks overshadowed by violence. US drone strike kills 15 in northwest Pakistan. France blocks extradition of Rwandan genocide suspect. All this and more in today’s security briefing.
