By Ahan S. Prakash   India’s position in multipolar blocs such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation rests on a deep structural contradiction.Read More »India’s Great Balancing Act Is Breaking

By Ahan S. Prakash   Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to New Delhi will be treated as a diplomatic event of the first order, and inRead More »India and China: A Pause, Not a Reset

  By Ahan S. Prakash   On 31 August 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague did something courts rarely get credit for:Read More »The Indus Waters Test: India vs. International Law

  By Ahan S. Prakash   Bangladesh has never been quick to make waves on the security front, which is why the signals coming outRead More »Bangladesh Eyes Mecca Pact: A New Challenge for India

By Ahan S. Prakash When B.R. Ambedkar wrote India’s constitution, he warned that political democracy cannot survive without social democracy underneath it. That line feelsRead More »USCIRF Report: India’s Minorities Under Threat

  Five years after marching back into Kabul, the Taliban has managed something strange. Governance through pure stagnation. Back in August 2021, the world gotRead More »Five Years of Taliban Failure

There’s an old saying that you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your neighbors. India and Pakistan seem determined to test just howRead More »India-Pakistan: A Dangerous Peace Without Dialogue

By Ahan S. Prakash | Geopolitical Analyst & Columnist For six years after the brutal Himalayan clashes of 2020, New Delhi operated under a prettyRead More »India and China: Can Trade Survive an Unresolved Border?