Ill winds blow in Bangladesh The Statesman 23 Dec 2025 The death of Sharif Osman Hadi in Singapore, where he had been taken for treatment after being shot in an assassination attempt, resulted in violence across Bangladesh. Hadi was an anti-Indian activist and convenor of Inqilab Moncho, a group formed in the wake of the 2024 student-led uprising, which […]
Trump and India The Excelsior 19 Dec 2025 The recent tele-conversation between PM Modi and US President Donald Trump came while Trump was contemplating increasing tariffs on India for supposedly ‘dumping’ Indian rice in US markets, pushing down prices of local varieties. The topics discussed between them included bilateral trade and cooperation in energy, security and defence. The conversation happened […]
Trans-Atlantic ties face Trump threat The Statesman 16 Dec 2025 Quietly hitting back at the US for its claims of Europe ‘decaying’ and its leaders ‘weak,’ the EU indefinitely froze USD 246 Billion of Russian assets held by it. This offset Trump’s Ukraine peace plan as also prevented Hungary and Slovakia, nations close to Russia, from vetoing further rolling […]
The enigma that is Pakistan The Excelsior 12 Dec 2025 India has for long attempted to project Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, a dangerous nuclear power as also a nation on the verge of economic collapse. However, a lot has changed in recent months, despite Pakistan surviving on a collection of IMF bailouts and facing internal insecurities. […]
A nation in turmoil: Why Imran Khan still terrifies the Pak army First Post 11 Dec 2025 As soon as a message flows from incarcerated Imran Khan, Pakistan army’s head of media (DGISPR) holds a press conference deriding him. He has been termed by the Pak army as a ‘threat to national security,’ ‘a narcissist’ as also a ‘sick […]
India’s deft diplomacy on show during Putin’s visit The Statesman 09 Dec 2025 Putin’s recently concluded visit was high on optics while deliverables were intentionally kept low key. This was Putin’s first visit to India since the commencement of the Ukraine war. The two leaders had last met just about three months ago on the sidelines of the SCO […]
Will the Ukraine war end The Statesman 02 Dec 2025 Trump’s administrations recently leaked 28-point peace plan has been dominating headlines across the globe. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his initial address to the nation on the plan mentioned that Ukraine faces an impossible choice. It could either keep its national dignity and keep fighting or risk losing […]
China-Japan spat The Excelsior 30 Nov 2025 China reacted angrily after the Japanese PM, Sanae Takaichi, mentioned in response to a question in their parliament that a Chinese assault on Taiwan could constitute a ‘survival-threatening situation’ for Japan, which could lead to it exercising ‘it’s right of self-defence.’ She even invoked the US-Japan defence treaty. All this, despite Japan […]
How Pakistan has mastered the art of projecting defeat as victory First Post 28 Nov 2025 Field Marshal William Slim’s book ‘defeat into victory’, published in 1956, covered the retaking of Burma (now Myanmar) from the Japanese by allied forces during the second world war. The book was praised for its narrative style and detailed account of the offensive, […]
Security implications of the Hasina verdict The Statesman 25 Nov 2025 Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced its former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death, in absentia, after finding them guilty of crimes against humanity, during the student led protests of Jul-Aug last year. Official records mention that over 1400 were killed […]