Admiral Krishna Swaminathan's visit to Port Louis is a goodwill call in name. In substance, it is a stocktaking of one of the Indian Ocean's oldest and most durable maritime partnerships — and a signa
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THE ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF AN OCEAN: MAURITIUS MATTERS TO INDIA’S INDIAN OCEAN CALCULUS
A nation of 1.3 million people presides over 2.3 million square kilometers of sea, sits astride the sea routes that matterSometimes it helps to look at the Indian Ocean not as it appears from Delhi, b
Read MoreShankkar AiyarOn 30 November 2001, Jim O'Neill at Goldman Sachs published twelve pages titled Building Better Global Economic BRICS and handed the decade its acronym. Brazil, Russia, India and China,
Read MoreHarsh V Pant The United States' growing munitions deficit is not merely the consequence of the ongoing conflict with Iran; rather, it reflects a deeper structural imbalance between America's strategic
Read MoreNaghma Sahar"India mein kaha jaata hai, 'Dar ke aage jeet hai'. Pakistan mein shayad kahani kuch aur hai: 'Ghar ke aage jeep hai'."(In India, it's said, 'There's victory beyond fear'. Pakistan's story
Read MoreMax Hastings The US Army buys 50,000 drones a year, set to increase in 2027 to 340,000. Sounds like a lot? Yeah, but Ukraine is producing and launching 4 million a year. Meanwhile, an Iranian missile
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