South Asia

Bangladesh at 51: The Story of a Success-making

“The vision of a nation formed from many different people bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our...

Japan-Myanmar-Bangladesh: Why Tokyo’s Rohingya resettlement initiative after US is appreciable

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has said the United States are working to significantly increase resettlement of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. Bangladesh's Foreign Minister...

Will Bangladesh be able to be ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041?

The Bangladesh government has set a target to build 'Smart Bangladesh' by 2041. Work on this has already started. After the formation of 'Smart...

A curious courtship: Rival Muslims woo Hindu nationalists

Muslim religious soft power rivalry, a battle for the soul of Islam, just got hotter. The rivalry’s latest battlefield is not Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Tehran,...

It’s all about India’s odd but subtle tit-for-tat perception

India has been known as an actor in world politics that had always chosen to refrain from any comment or interference on matters that...

Narratives and Discourses: Evaluating 75 years of Indian Foreign Policy

As India celebrates its 75 years of Indian foreign policy and its positioning in the global architecture, it needs to be evaluated that how...

India’s response to Taliban 2.0 and a comparative analysis with Taliban 1.0

Authors: Avinav Singh Khatri and Vedant Choudhary An important, albeit now suppressed, international security concern is the exodus of the US from Afghanistan and, consequently...

India’s Extended Neighborhood and Implications for India’s Act East Policy

Governments in India have come and gone, however what remains perpetual is the dynamic foreign policy construct of India. The concept of the "extended...

Is genocide against the Indian Muslims a myth or a tangible reality?

A professor at the Manipal Institute of Technology in Udupi district asked a student for his name and then said, "Oh you are like...

Pakistan’s Efforts for Protection of Minorities’ Rights, Facts on Forced Conversions and Blasphemy Convictions

It can be argued that the binary construction, inherently divisive and discriminatory, of ‘self’ and ‘other’ is an outcome of the conditioned and egoic...

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