Bangladesh’s sudden fondness for Pakistan, abetted by China’s not-so-subtle elbowing of India, looks less like bold statecraft and more like a geopolitical trust fall—performed without checking...
If foreign policy came with a warranty, Pakistan would be filing a claim. After decades of cultivating influence in Afghanistan, Islamabad has discovered that the Taliban,...
Education reform in India is treated the way people treat New Year’s resolutions: declared with great seriousness, announced with fireworks, and quietly abandoned by February—except in...
South Asia doesn’t suffer from multiple Deep States. That would imply competition, borders, and paperwork. What it has is one Deep State, regionally networked, professionally mobile,...
Pakistan has always punched above its weight—not in economics, governance, or human development, but in the global sport of geopolitical scapegoating. And in this long Olympic...
Hezbollah: From Militant Birth to Political Power — Lebanon’s Paradox and the Region’s Pressure Point Few forces have shaped modern Lebanon — and unsettled the Middle...
IDEOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS: THE MAKING OF THE RSS WORLDVIEW The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was not born as an outgrowth of politics but as a response...
In the turbulent theatre of the Middle East, few relationships have undergone a transformation as dramatic and consequential as that between Iran and Israel. What today...
When Vladimir Putin stepped onto Indian soil for a full-scale state visit, the world waited for the usual Western spectacle — the stern statements, podium anger,...
In the grand theatre of global geopolitics—where every handshake hides a dagger and every alliance smells faintly of petroleum—the world is often forced to choose not...
