October 29, 2025 7:05 pm
From building a democratic structure and completing national integration, to framing a sovereign Constitution, reshaping education, and redefining foreign relations, India has come a long way since independence. But how was this journey shaped, and what hurdles did independent India overcome along the way?
August 22, 2025 6:47 am
While engagements with China, Russia are independent of Trump's disruptions, they have now acquired a new dimension
July 20, 2024 1:05 am
Last week, Garcetti said at an event that “strategic autonomy” cannot apply in times of conflict and India and the US must work towards upholding principles when there is breach of rules-based order or violation of sovereign borders.
April 17, 2024 1:13 pm
The Left’s rejection of India’s strategic partnership with the US, the Congress critique of the government’s China policy, and the collective lack of attention to Russia suggest how much the domestic political perception has changed in India’s great power relations over the last decade
January 03, 2024 11:05 pm
The evaluation of the ‘roads not taken’ in India’s foreign policy during the early years after independence in ‘Why Bharat Matters’ will trigger much political controversy. But it helps us break away from the perspective that everything we did in the past was the correct choice for that moment
December 23, 2022 8:50 am
Raja Menon writes: QUAD only brings a smile to Xi Jinping’s face knowing it is not a military organisation. An Indo-Japanese nuclear submarine project with both countries operating nuclear submarines in the South China sea would convert that smile into a frown of worry.
October 21, 2021 7:37 am
M K Bhadrakumar writes: All signs point towards a major calibration of India’s foreign-policy compass in recent weeks driven by the theme of countering China and the ascendance of political Islam.
January 12, 2016 12:04 am
Perceptions that the Modi government has moved Westwards are misplaced.
February 03, 2015 7:52 am
Modi’s postures and policies have not gone according to the hard nationalist script.
December 12, 2014 8:54 am
A fortnightly column on the high politics of the Af-Pak region, the fulcrum of global power play in India’s neighbourhood.






