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What happened:

On November 8, 2025, the sacred relics of Lord Buddha were flown from New Delhi to Thimphu aboard an Indian Air Force aircraft, marking a gesture of spiritual and cultural friendship between India and Bhutan. The relics, accompanied by a high-level delegation led by Union Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar, will be publicly displayed at the Kuenrey Hall of Tashichho Dzong from November 8 to 18 as part of the Global Peace Prayer Festival (GPPF).

Why it matters to India:

The event symbolizes India’s enduring civilizational and cultural ties with Bhutan and reinforces shared Buddhist heritage. Coinciding with the 70th birthday of Bhutan’s fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the festival unites global Buddhist leaders and practitioners to promote peace and compassion. India’s participation reflects its commitment to fostering regional spiritual harmony through the message of the Buddha.

What happened:

On November 8, 2025, MEA Secretary (West) Sibi George co-chaired the 11th India–Armenia Foreign Office Consultations with Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan in Yerevan. Both sides discussed the full range of bilateral ties and regional and global issues of mutual interest. An Agreement on Cooperation in Public Health and Medical Science was also signed between the health ministries of both countries.

Why it matters to India:

The consultations reinforced India’s growing partnership with Armenia across health, defence, and multilateral cooperation. Building on recent defence talks in Hyderabad, the meeting highlighted New Delhi’s engagement in the Caucasus region and its effort to strengthen strategic and developmental partnerships beyond its immediate neighbourhood.

What happened:

On November 7, 2025, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko to discuss strengthening India–Russia’s multifaceted cooperation. The two leaders exchanged views on key regional, global, and multilateral developments, reaffirming the depth of their long-standing partnership.

Why it matters to India:

India–Russia relations remain a cornerstone of New Delhi’s foreign policy, rooted in decades of defence, energy, and technological collaboration. The meeting builds on recent engagements, including the 23rd Working Group Meeting on Military Technical Cooperation in Moscow, which outlined new areas for joint growth. The discussions reflect both nations’ shared commitment to a stable, multipolar global order.

What happened:
 

On November 7, 2025, Ambassador of India to Brazil Dinesh Bhatia delivered India’s national statement at the Leaders’ Summit of the 30th Conference of the Parties (CoP30) to the UNFCCC in Belem, Brazil. He reaffirmed India’s commitment to climate action guided by equity, national circumstances, and the principles of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities (CBDR-RC). India also joined Brazil’s new Tropical Forests Forever Facility as an Observer, recognizing it as a vital step toward global forest preservation.

Why it matters to India:

 The statement underscored India’s achievements in reducing emission intensity by 36% between 2005 and 2020, reaching over 50% non-fossil power capacity, and creating a carbon sink of 2.29 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalent. It called for greater ambition from developed countries and equitable climate finance for developing nations. By emphasizing fairness, implementation, and shared responsibility, India reaffirmed its commitment to multilateralism and the principles that underpin the Paris Agreement.

What happened:
 

On November 7, 2025, India strengthened its Blue Economy cooperation in the Bay of Bengal region by hosting the first Biennial Conference of the BIMSTEC-India Marine Research Network (BIMReN) in Kochi. Launched in 2024 by the Ministry of External Affairs, BIMReN has so far connected 25 institutions and over 50 researchers from BIMSTEC countries.

Why it matters to India:

The conference marked a key milestone in advancing regional collaboration on marine research and sustainable Blue Economy initiatives. The network facilitates institutional partnerships through research grants and PhD fellowships, linking Indian research institutions with those in other BIMSTEC nations. Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2022 Colombo BIMSTEC Summit, BIMReN aligns with India’s Neighbourhood First, Act East, Indo-Pacific, and MAHASAGAR strategies, reflecting India’s long-term commitment to sustainable fisheries management and marine innovation in the Bay of Bengal.

What happened:

 On November 6, 2025, France’s Special Envoy for Artificial Intelligence, Anne Bouverot, announced that 2026 will be celebrated as the “Year of French-Indian Innovation,” underscoring growing collaboration between India and France in emerging technologies ahead of the AI Impact Summit 2026. The summit, scheduled for February 19–20 in New Delhi, will be the first global AI summit hosted in the Global South.

Why it matters to India:

The declaration highlights India’s expanding role as a leader in AI diplomacy and innovation. France and India aim to co-develop AI solutions tailored to diverse social and cultural contexts, focusing on agriculture, commerce, education, and healthcare. The summit is expected to advance inclusive, people-centric AI cooperation, positioning India as a global hub for responsible and sustainable AI development.

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As we proudly present the sixth issue of India’s World, we feel a strong sense of fulfilment, satisfaction, and gratitude for the not-so-easy journey we have undertaken over the past year. India’s World was born out of a deep belief in the power of stories—stories about India and its relationship with the world. For me and my team, India’s World has become more than just a publication; it’s a shared dream, nurtured by the passion of our contributors and readers who believe in our ability to narrate the story of this complex, beautiful, and diverse place called India.

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One of the defining attributes of a great power is its ability to produce the weapons it needs for its own defence. Only a handful of nations meet this standard—the United States, Russia, and France among them. That capacity rests on an advanced industrial base and technological sophistication. A rising China has now joined their ranks

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Geopolitically speaking, Europe and India stand at critical crossroads today. Europe is grappling with renewed assertiveness from emerging powers, internal political recalibrations within the continent, and a rapidly unravelling multilateral order. India is carefully navigating regional and global geopolitical uncertainties and is choosing to be more multi-aligned, moving more decisively into the Indo-Pacific, negotiating FTAs, and managing the rapidly rising China challenge in the region and beyond.

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Adding insult to injury, Trump’s “Make America Great Again” ideologues have intervened brazenly in Europe’s domestic politics. The U.S. State Department—once fond of lecturing non-Western nations on human rights—has turned its gaze on European democracies, raising alarms about restrictions on free speech. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly scolded Europe for abandoning “classical Western values”

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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has almost single-handedly altered the course of contemporary international politics. Under his watch, Washington seems to have become disinterested in its leadership of the world. The transatlantic relationship has been damaged, if not altogether dismantled; the war in Ukraine is turning in Russia’s favour; and China continues its assertive global rise. There is little clarity about what comes next. And it has only been a little over five months since Trump assumed office in Washington.

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Official Delhi rarely acknowledges big changes in foreign policy. The discourse on Indian foreign policy that celebrates continuity and enduring principles such as strategic autonomy is even more reluctant to reflect on India’s changing foreign policy orientation. Yet, change has been the dominant feature of India’s engagement with the world over the last three decades. Some of that change has accelerated under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For example, Modi himself has claimed that India has shed its ‘historic hesitations’ in building a partnership with the United States.

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Geography, they say, is destiny, and that you can’t alter destiny. If that’s true, it’s important to understand one’s destiny—not necessarily to change it, but at least to work with it. This issue of India’s World aims to explore the history of India’s neighbourhood, examine how India’s relationship with its destiny has evolved, and consider ways to improve the nature of that destiny.
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Seventy-five years after independence, the subcontinent remains at odds with itself. Bemoaning this tragedy is no substitute for hard-headed analysis. There has been plenty of reflection on the state of the subcontinent in this issue of India’s World.

No analysis of the region can overlook the historical burden of the Partition that continues to weigh down on Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. So is the inevitable fragmentation of the broader subcontinent, whose heartland and periphery were held together by the paramountcy of the British Raj until 1947.

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Ausaf Sayeed

Shifting World Order: The Case for Indo-Gulf Counter-terrorism Partnership

Shiv M. Sahai

‘Deterrence by Exhaustion’: Nine Elements of India’s Emerging Strategy Against Terrorism

Happymon Jacob

Twelve Arguments to make sense of ‘Operation Sindoor’

Happymon Jacob

Pakistan’s strategy of dealing with the Taliban

Bhashyam Kasturi

India’s Submarine Force Levels – A Cause for Worry

Anil Chawla

India’s Southeast Asia Policy: Hype or Hope?

Riddhi Likhe, Deepa Ollapally

India and the US in the time of Trump

Meera Shankar

Manmohan Singh’s national security record is more substantive than he gets credit for

D S Hooda

The trial of an ISI Chief

Shiv M. Sahai

Disquiet on the Durand Line: Making sense of Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions

Bhashyam Kasturi

Diego Garcia in India’s Security Calculus: The Search for a Realist Solution  

Sarabjeet S. Parmar

Indian Democracy and the Package deal with China 

Sidharth Raimedhi

Post-Hasina Security Challenges: Implications for India’s Internal Security 

Shiv M. Sahai

Role of the military in India’s path to power

D S Hooda

India’s Strategic Choices: Constrained and Getting Worse 

Rajesh Rajagopalan 

Trade & Economics

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Shailender Arya
| November 1, 2025

From Factory to Frontline: Great Expectations in Indian Defence Exports

Amit Cowshish
| November 1, 2025

From Offsets to Autonomy: Rethinking India’s Defence Export Strategy

Sarabjeet Singh Parmar
| November 1, 2025

Indian Shipbuilding: The Case to Become a Warship Sellers Nation

Junjun Sharma Pathak
| October 31, 2025

Marching Toward ₹50,000 Crore in Defence Exports: Rajinder Bhatia on India’s Global Ambition

Art & Culture

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Manu Sharma
| November 4, 2025

The Global Journey of Indian Schools

Hely Desai
| November 2, 2025

Atomic Ambitions, Cinematic Fictions: Cold War Politics in a South Asian Nuclear Drama

Kyiv, City Under Siege

Happymon Jacob
Jonathan Koshy Verghese
| November 2, 2025

If Elephants Could Paint: or when Dali came to Delhi, almost

Sridhar Krishnan
| November 2, 2025

Absolut Propaganda: Vodka, NATO, and Bosnia

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Books & Authors

India’s World
| November 2, 2025

Notables 

Manav Gudwani
| November 2, 2025

The Silent Enemy: Non-Traditional Challenges to National Security (2025), By Arvind Gupta and Rajesh Singh

Ravi Kumar
| November 2, 2025

The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India (2025), By Ram Madhav

Saivira Gupta
| November 2, 2025

The World According to Military Targeting (2025), By Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud

Ved Shinde
| November 2, 2025

Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-1977 (2023), and, Believer’s Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu Right’s Path to Power 1977-2018 (2025), By Abhishek Choudhary

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