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Monday, September 29, 2025
TopicIndia-Pakistan

Topic: India-Pakistan

The Sunday Spring

Why a lunch in Delhi and a pilgrimage to Ajmer could achieve more than any summit.

Hype and hyphen

Pakistan wants to rehyphenate US policy in the neighbourhood. Why we must not let ourselves down.

His Af, our Pak

While we build infrastructure in Afghanistan, we must also change our approach to Pakistan, come out of the post-26/11 sulk, and engage with its imperfect democratic establishment.

Our faff-Pak policy

It is time to stop jubilating at the unfolding tragedy in Pakistan. India has to think of becoming a part of the solution.

A new project Pakistan

India must engage with the rest of the world in search for that new creative solution which may, ultimately, be a variant of the earlier one, except Pakistan does not have a Musharraf equivalent.

No first-use options

For five years, our politics has starved our military. Now we're suffering the consequences.

Our pipeline of control

Given the complexities of regional relationships, the issue of India-Pakistan-Iran pipeline needs to be dealt with flexibility, pragmatism as well as hard-headedness.

1965 in 2005

The Pakistani assault in 1965 was brilliant in conception and initiation but all this turned into suicidal stupidity in the euphoria of initial successes.

Lessons of the missile ‘leak’ — pity the soft state

Paranoia, and not supreme, serene self-confidence, is the hallmark of a superpower and India needs to understand that.

On Camera

Bodoland poll loss a wake-up call for Assam BJP. Zubeen’s death puts CM Sarma in a tight spot

Assam CM can’t celebrate that the Congress drew a blank in the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in 2010 as well as 2015, and bagged only one in 2020.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Aerial warfare analyst Tom Cooper faults India’s military PR, says Pakistan does it better

In post on social media, Cooper narrated experience of MiG-21 researcher from Germany who wanted to attend aircraft’s farewell ceremony in India, and the roadblocks he faced. 

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.