- Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a blog post to mark one month in office. While it needs to be taken with a grain of salt, it's worth a read.
- Will China be able to pull off a reset in its relations with India?
- Can India be transformed from the world's largest defence equipment importer to a major exporter?
- The prospect of raising the foreign direct investment limit in defence from 26% to 100% in India has proven controversial.
- India has stepped up its efforts to become a serious player in deep-sea mining.
- The New York Times' India Ink blog has ceased to exist as an independent blog, and is being integrated into 'world' coverage from next week. You can still keep track of its India-related reporting by following @nytindia on Twitter.
- At long last, India has ratified an IAEA additional protocol, which could open the door for uranium sales.
- Despite Modi's promises to kick-start economic growth, will India's social development stagnate under the new leadership?
- Shashank Joshi looks at what the appointment of Ajit Doval as National Security Adviser will mean for India's world view:
Mr. Doval is not one for grand, cooperative schemes. He is a hawk, but a cautious one. His diagnoses are gloomy, but his prescriptions restrained. His vision is quite different to Mr. Modi's globalism. It is more inward looking, localised, and distrustful. His vision of national security is primarily internal, peripheral, and — perhaps most intriguingly — cultural. Farther afield, Mr. Doval warns of developments in Afghanistan and strikes an uncompromising tone on Pakistan — but there is little on China, let alone India's partners in East and Southeast Asia.