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    • India
    • Sex and Gender

    When women win: India’s cricket revolution

    Sanchari Ghosh
    India’s World Cup victory shows that investing in women’s sport delivers results beyond the boundary, with lessons across the region.
  • 6 Nov 2025
    • India
    • United States

    Will a trade deal repair India-US ties?

    Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
    New Delhi’s optimism about Trump's return has given way to punitive tariffs, stalled negotiations, and diplomatic drift.
  • 28 Oct 2025
    • China
    • India

    Is the India–China détente real?

    Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
    Existential differences and longstanding distrust make the current normalisation of relations deeply unstable.
  • 24 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Japan

    Japan’s hawkish turn under Takaichi tests India’s balancing act

    Sanchari Ghosh
    Security convergence with New Delhi looks set to deepen, but nationalist priorities in Tokyo may shift the tone of economic engagement.
  • 23 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Migration
    • Technology
    • United States

    US foreign worker visas: Where there’s crisis, there’s opportunity

    Aarti Betigeri
    Highly skilled Indian workers will be looking elsewhere after Trump’s visa decision. This could be Australia’s moment.
  • 15 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Building trust: the real work in Australia-India defence ties

    Teesta Prakash , Grace Corcoran
    Measurable outcomes, not strategic rhetoric, will determine whether bilateral relations prosper.
  • 10 Oct 2025
    • India

    Why Ladakh refuses to Leh low

    Abhijnan Rej
    A recent protest demonstrates persistent contradictions in a strategically vital region.
  • 9 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Quad

    India’s Rajnath Singh in Canberra: Turning warm words into a shared maritime operating model

    Premesha Saha
    Real-time information sharing and coordinated patrols would deliver tangible benefits to the Indo-Pacific, not just rhetoric.
  • 8 Oct 2025
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • United States

    Pakistan’s Pasni port pitch to Washington can reshape regional rivalries with China and India

    Saima Afzal
    Minerals over missiles – at least, that’s the message Islamabad is sending.
  • 24 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Maritime Security

    India’s Ocean: A new report charts Delhi’s maritime direction

    Sanchari Ghosh
    Self-defined as the net security provider in its near seas, India now has a more ambitious agenda.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan

    The handshake that wasn’t: Cricket a casualty of India-Pakistan tensions

    Saqlain Rizve
    The sad story of how the sporting ground can transform from peacemaker to political battlefield.
  • 18 Sep 2025
    • China
    • India
    • Nepal

    Nepal’s generational revolt catches China and India in the middle

    Saima Afzal
    Political upheaval in Kathmandu tests the limits of great power influence in South Asia.
  • 17 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Global Issues

    India’s diaspora in far-right crosshairs

    Abhijnan Rej
    Indian-origin immigrants are bearing the brunt of MAGA-fication globally.
  • 11 Sep 2025
    • India

    India-US relations demonstrate fickle foreign policies but sticky relations

    Chietigj Bajpaee
    New Delhi’s efforts to maintain equidistance from all powers increasingly faces pressure to choose a side.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • India
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Canberra needs fewer partners, better focus – and a team-up with Seoul and Delhi offers just that

    Grace Corcoran
    An Australia-India-South Korea triangle makes sense in an era of uncertainty about the United States.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Technology

    India’s digital arrest scams

    Abhijnan Rej
    Cultural predispositions and the brain’s cognitive biases are being weaponised by cybercriminals to devastating effect.
  • 5 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • Türkiye

    Digital authoritarianism is on the rise: Australia should take note

    Nicholas Morieson , Ihsan Yilmaz
    Democracies are increasingly using the tools of digital control under the guise of national security.
  • 3 Sep 2025
    • China
    • India

    What resuming direct India-China flights reveals about changing regional priorities

    Kazimier Lim
    A reconnection that might make managing a fraught relationship just that bit easier.
  • 2 Sep 2025
    • China
    • India
    • United States

    Nothing new in the India-US spat or Delhi-Beijing bonhomie

    R. N. Prasher
    The baggage of history weighs more than just the personalities of the present.
  • 1 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Quad
    • United States

    The fallout for Australia from US-India tension

    Peter Varghese
    Canberra and New Delhi could forge deeper ties as compensation for America’s changing regional priorities.
  • 1 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Quad

    Four legs bad, three legs better? Rescuing the Quad with an India-Japan-Australia grouping

    Sanchari Ghosh
    Three democratic middle powers have compelling reasons to forge an independent partnership that doesn’t depend on US politics.
  • 29 Aug 2025
    • China
    • India
    • United States

    The bigger story behind Modi’s China trip – and it’s not India’s tensions with Trump

    Jean-Loup Samaan
    New Delhi’s foreign policy remains anchored in diversification, not American expectations of a special partnership.
  • 27 Aug 2025
    • India
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump’s tariffs are only part of the problem for Indian manufacturing

    Henry Storey
    Deeper structural problems at home pose bigger challenges than the trade dispute with Washington.
  • 27 Aug 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Climate change

    Kashmir’s double burden: Climate change and conflict

    Leoni Connah
    Recurring floods in disputed Kashmir highlight how geopolitical tensions compound climate vulnerabilities and hinder long-term solutions.
  • 22 Aug 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • United States

    The next India-Pakistan crisis could spiral out of control

    Huma Rehman
    Tensions with Washington and Trump’s Islamabad embrace appear to remove crucial past restraints on military escalation.
  • 21 Aug 2025
    • India

    Why has India reimagined its role from Vishwaguru to Vishwamitra?

    Sanchari Ghosh
    A quiet diplomatic evolution shows how Modi learned to stop preaching and start partnering.
  • 20 Aug 2025
    • India
    • United States

    How India-US relations unravelled: The Trump-Modi timeline

    Daniel Flitton
    From bromance to breakdown.
  • 20 Aug 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • France

    Time to reboot the India-France-Australia trilateral

    Rushali Saha
    Three Indian Ocean powers must institutionalise their partnership or risk becoming another underused diplomatic forum.
  • 11 Aug 2025
    • India
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump and Modi can’t ignore the trade policy power of India’s farmers

    Vani Swarupa Murali
    Electoral arithmetic and protest power give India’s agricultural sector a big voice.
  • 4 Aug 2025
    • India

    What message will Modi take if he attends the SCO Summit in China?

    Shaheli Das
    A visit would be a positive step forward in what appears to be a thaw in ties – but against a backdrop of continued disagreements.
  • 1 Aug 2025
    • India
    • Trade
    • United States

    The shine has come off the Modi-Trump bromance (and perhaps the India-US relationship)

    Chietigj Bajpaee
    Claims of ideological affinity between the world’s oldest and largest democracy won’t be enough.
  • 31 Jul 2025
    • China
    • India
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump’s 25% India tariffs could backfire and strengthen China-India ties

    Saira Bano
    The direction of US-India relations had long been upwards – but suddenly there is a jolt.
  • 30 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Trade

    The business of doing business: India’s flawed investment protection model

    Srijan Shukla
    Can New Delhi use new trade agreements to fix its abysmal record on contract enforcement?
  • 25 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • United States

    How Pakistan won over the US leadership after years of isolation

    Adnan Aamir
    A military chief’s White House lunch caps Islamabad’s successful effort to reverse years of diplomatic isolation – and hasn’t gone unnoticed.
  • 25 Jul 2025
    • China
    • India

    The Dalai Lama’s succession: A moment for global solidarity

    Lisa Singh
    China’s attempts to control the selection of Tibet’s next spiritual leader need a response from the international community.
  • 23 Jul 2025
    • India
    • United States

    Trump and Modi’s shared blueprint for concentrating power and repressing dissent

    Aarti Betigeri
    One on a fast track, the other a slow burn, both leaders are rewriting democratic rules to suit themselves.
  • 21 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Terrorism

    India’s Naxals: Why do they fight?

    Abhijnan Rej
    A communist insurgency in India has confoundedly persisted for decades.
  • 15 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Trade

    Pivot to the West: India’s changing trade strategy

    Ved Shinde
    Even for a country of India’s economic size, not prioritising exports is unviable.
  • 11 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Can Australia, India and Indonesia really sail together?

    Rahman Yaacob
    Mismatched strategic culture is the main obstacle to joint maritime security ambitions.
  • 10 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Australia

    India-Australia: A partnership a long time coming

    Anondeeta Chakraborty
    There are important lessons from the last time Canberra and New Delhi sought to forge common cause.
  • 4 Jul 2025
    • Bangladesh
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • International law
    • Sustainability

    The Indus Treaty verdict: When water outlasts war

    Ishaal Zehra
    A Hague ruling against India’s treaty “abeyance” might stop a precedent that could spread from China to Bangladesh.
  • 1 Jul 2025
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Indonesia, Australia, and India: Overcoming barriers to trilateral partnership

    Emirza Adi Syailendra
    Three Indo-Pacific powers search for common ground amid US-China rivalry.
  • 30 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Long-distance nationalism tests Australia’s multicultural harmony

    Kanchan Panday
    Reaction to the Pahalgam attack from afar showed the social media stress faced by diaspora communities.
  • 27 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    The India-Australia military partnership must move from paper to practice

    Anuttama Banerji
    Operationalising existing military agreements for real cooperation is key.
  • 23 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan

    Kashmir: The identity crisis at the heart of the three-way territorial contest

    Trivan Annakkarage
    Rich resources and vital rivers make Kashmir a prize worth fighting for, but neither India, Pakistan nor China will give ground.
  • 19 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan

    India and Pakistan are on a global charm offensive, but is it worth listening?

    Chietigj Bajpaee
    Both sides have a story to tell but dialogue appears to be a dead end.
  • 16 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Maldives
    • Sri Lanka
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Putting the “Indo” in Indo-Pacific, Australia’s westward pivot

    Rushali Saha
    Embassy openings and patrol boat gifts signal Canberra's recognition that Indian Ocean influence requires active engagement.
  • 13 Jun 2025
    • China
    • India

    China’s cartographic claims test fragile India rapprochement

    Ramita Iyer
    Despite four years of negotiations and recent agreements, territorial assertions continue to strain ties between the two powers.
  • 4 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Terrorism

    India’s concern could reshape Australia's Pakistan defence ties

    Kim Heriot-Darragh
    It’s a good time for Canberra to reassess military cooperation with Islamabad given limited influence and competing Indo-Pacific priorities.
  • 3 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Australia

    Five years is a long time in Australia-India relations, but there is still more to do

    Ian Hall , Lisa Singh
    A stocktake of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
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