I am delighted to bring you the June 2026 edition of India’s World, on Indian business going global. If you are wondering what business has to do with foreign policy, turn the pages.

Indian business is abroad now in a way it has never quite been before, buying steel mills and luxury car brands, refining other nations’ crude, parking its capital in Singapore, Mauritius, and the Netherlands. 
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INDIAN BUSINESS GOING GLOBAL

Volume 2 Issue 6

June 2026

The Argument

India’s outward foreign direct investment was negligible until the early 2000s. Annual outflows were just below one billion dollars through most of the 1990s, as Indian companies absorbed the balance ...
| June 12, 2026

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I am delighted to bring you the June 2026 edition of India’s World, on Indian business going global. If you are wondering what business has to do with foreign policy, turn the pages.

Indian business is abroad now in a way it has never quite been before, buying steel mills and luxury car brands, refining other nations’ crude, parking its capital in Singapore, Mauritius, and the Netherlands. 
Read more

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The Last Word

India now needs a new compact between state and capital. A nation aspiring to shape the international order cannot separate economic power from strategic influence