Issue - 1 | India's World

Delhi's Grand strategy

Volume 1 Issue 1
January – February 2025

The Argument

India’s Geopolitics: The Legacy of the British Raj

Grand Strategy for a “Viksit Bharat”

Grand Strategy

Why India needs a techno-strategic doctrine

Pranay Kotasthane

Multi-Alignment’: Towards a ‘Grand Strategy’ for India in the Twenty-first Century

Five Paradoxes in India’s Grand Strategy

An Economic Strategy for India

India’s Strategic Choices: Constrained and Getting Worse

Rajesh Rajagopalan

The US and China in Indian Grand Strategy

Diplomatic History

The Rise and Demise of the MEA’s Historical Division

T.C.A. Raghavan

A South African Scandal

How and Why D&ISA Division Was Created in MEA

Archaeology, geopolitics and Angkor Wat: A forgotten episode in India’s diplomatic history

T.C.A. Raghavan

The year South Asia found its voice

Unfurling History: The Many Flags of Afghanistan

Notebook

Covering India’s World: An MEA beat reporter remembers

Suhasini Haidar

Reporting India-Pakistan: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Power of Narratives

Theory

From backyard to expanse: Theorising India’s approaches to South Asia

Joys of theory

China

For China, Age is More than a Number

Indian Democracy and the Package deal with China

Sidharth Raimedhi

Harmony means hierarchy: Lifting the veil on China’s global community rhetoric

Culture

F.N. Souza and The Last Supper: Religion Reimagined.

Jonathan Koshy Verghese

The Shifting Sands of Migration and Memory: The Indo-Gulf Story in Cinema

Terror at the Turn of the Millennium: India’s tryst with Global Jihad

Indian Yellow: How science, art, and Empire fashioned the story of a pigment

Jonathan Koshy Verghese

From Kapurthala to Coachella: The rise and rise of Punjabi pop

Suanshu Khurana

The Rebel Star: A Profile of Diljit Dosanjh

Middle East

Assessing the India-Qatar Reset

Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Ambassador K. P. Fabian, India’s then lead diplomat, recalls Operation Ajay

In the Middle East, India is both a fox and a hedgehog

Bashir Ali Abbas

Folio

Reading the Writer: Avinash Paliwal

Bashir Ali Abbas

Reading the Writer: T.V. Paul

A.S. Bhasin, ‘The Diplomat’s Historian’

Reading the Writer:Dhruva Jaishankar

Sidharth Raimedhi

– Book Reviews

Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

Kathmandu Chronicle: Reclaiming India-Nepal Relations

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order by Darshana Baruah

Dilip Sinha’s Imperial Games in Tibet

India’s Closest Strategic Partners by Sreeram Chaulia

Tibet

Democracy in Exile: The Uncertain Fate of the Tibetan People

Law & Foreign Policy

Mainstreaming International Law in Indian Foreign Policy

Prabhash Ranjan

Gender

Why India needs a Feminist Foreign Policy, Now

Tishya Khillare

The Last Word

India in its periphery

The Many Splendored World

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