India
#Metoo catches up with Bollywood and India beyond
An awkward scene unfolded earlier this month in Lonavala, a hill town in the west of India. A group of men claiming to represent a regional political party, Maharashtra Navnirman…
India’s Arctic energy partnership with Russia
When people discuss Indo-Russian relations, they generally focus on Russia’s arms sales to India. However, India’s energy relations with Moscow also possess considerable and,…
Thawing tensions in the Himalaya
In the last few decades, state-making projects have transformed life in the Himalaya. Infrastructure development intended for troop deployment along disputed borders has, more…
South Asia diplomacy hostage to a bitter legacy
The bitter legacy of the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 continues to be an impediment to normal relations between Pakistan and India. Proper and meaningful diplomacy…
Missing in action: India’s aircraft carriers
Long considered the crowning jewel of the fleet, India has continuously operated an aircraft carrier for well over half-a-century. Since 1961, when its first carrier entered…
India’s airlines take off and hit turbulence
Some years ago, I took a domestic flight in India on one of the many new airlines that had cropped up over the preceding decade. The flight was on time and smooth, the food was…
India's game-changing health care initiative
It has been dubbed the world’s biggest experiment in universal health care.
Last Sunday, India launched its A$2.2 billion universal health care plan that was promised in the…
The other Rohingya crisis
As the world’s eyes are focused on the unfolding Rohingya refugee crisis Bangladesh, to the east in India another danger may be brewing for the Rohingya Muslim community.
Over…
India’s navy: between carriers and patrol boats
Last month, the Indian Navy conducted the largest ever disaster relief and rescue operation under its Southern Naval Command, part of an effort to rescue thousands of people…
China’s trans-Himalayan tango with Nepal
Crossing the China-Nepal border via Tibet and the Himalayas is as formidable as it has been for centuries. To drive from Tibet’s capital city Lhasa to the Gyirong checkpoint…