Indian Diplomacy

How Prophet row challenges Narendra Modi’s carefully-crafted foreign policy in West Asia

On issues of Islam, particularly with reference to the Quran and Prophet Mohammed, most if not all 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Countries stay together

Why India decided to have a virtual SCO summit

While India will be able to deliver more than what was expected of it as the chair of the organisation, it will not have to confront the uncertainties and complications that could have otherwise presented themselves in an in-person summit

Is Shanghai Cooperation Organisation going the SAARC way?

Pakistan is facing National Assembly elections later this year. Clearly, Bilawal’s attacks on India, from inside his country and outside, have to be seen in this context

A tale of two Bhuttos: Why India should be thankful to Pakistan for having a Bilawal-like Foreign Minister

With Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the helm, it was a kind of a walkover in Goa for India’s diplomatic team that is currently being handled quite deftly by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

As G20 and Quad meetings suggest, India’s brave new diplomacy comes of age under Narendra Modi

It is Prime Minister Modi’s Midas diplomatic touch that India holds both G20 and Quad summits almost simultaneously, and yet no one complains about it

G20 presidency: Time to go beyond Bollywood and chicken tikka, and showcase India’s real soft power

The G20 presidency provides an opportunity to completely revamp the priority we have thus far given to soft power, and radically restructure the manner in which we pursue it

Why 2022 will go down in history as India's year of fine diplomacy

India firmly resisted the diplomatic pressures from the US and the West to follow their footsteps and their outlook towards Russia. Also, it has charted its own independent course

G20 summit announced India’s arrival on global stage; path ahead will need more diplomatic dexterity, relentless focus

India’s growing geopolitical clout is underwritten by its global trend-defying economic trajectory and conducive external environment

Jaishankar is moving in the right direction: New India needs assertive diplomacy

The Modi government’s pro-active diplomacy is an attempt to search for India’s rightful place among the comity of nations. And this endeavour is not against any country. More so the democratic West, with which India shares common interests and destinies

Dealing with Dragon: Why India must shed the ‘Panipat syndrome’ while talking to China

For all we know, at the SCO meet later this week, Xi Jinping, like the proverbial Zhuge Liang, may well be playing the ‘Bhai-Bhai’ tune through his ‘qin’, but that will just be a ruse to hide his sinister agenda