Publications
Chabahar port’s strategic importance for India
What happened? India marked a significant 10-year contract with Iran signing to operate the Shahid Beheshti Terminal at Chabahar Port, in May 2024. That provides direct land and sea connectivity with Afghanistan and The Central Asia, the extended neighborhood. The Us ...
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Guiding a Bloc on Fire India's policy options as BRICS chair amid the Iran war and Hormuz crisis
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY India, which will chair BRICS in 2026, will face a complex array of pressures from a war involving Iran, the United States and Israel, and a crisis in the Strait of Hormuz that has disrupted global energy flows. The war has divided the BRICS members wi...
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The Cost of the Deal: India's Trade Agreement with Washington and the Costs of Strategic Realignment What does this deal cost India diplomatically?
1. Introduction The trade deal between India and Washington is not just a commercial economic deal, it is a strategic bargain. The United States will lower the Reciprocal Tariff on India from 25% to 18%, but the relief comes with the political and diplomatic condi...
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India's BRICS Dilemma: Can New Delhi lead the Global South Without Abandoning Israel?
Introduction Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that he was born on the same day India formally recognized Israel (September 17, 1950) (Ministry of External Affairs,2026), showing how India acknowledged Israel and chose a neutral side. India choosing to be neutral is...
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Hunger as a Weapon How Russia Turned the Black Sea Grain Corridor into a Tool of War
WHAT HAPPENED? The Day the Grain Stopped Moving There is a detail about the Russia-Ukraine war that gets surprisingly little coverage given how consequential it has been — and that is what happened to global wheat the week Russian tanks crossed the border. ...
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Bab-el-Mandeb and the Security of Westbound Maritime Trade Routes
A strait with great geopolitical importance, The Bab-el-Mandeb also commonly known as "Gate of Tears" connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and Arabian sea between Yemen and Djibouti at the southern end of the Red Sea. It connects the exclusive economic zones of...
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The AI Compute Divide : How Sovereign AI Infrastructure is Reshaping Global Tech Dependencies.
Historically, for tech driven systems majorly all countries depended on the US, but as the technology tends to become more advanced many new countries like Japan, China entered the race of technology infrastructure development which shifted from hardware and software to more s...
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The Geography of Bottlenecks - Choke Points in Maritime Trade : How narrow waterways dictate global prices
“Geography is the mother of strategy”, said by naval historian AT Mahan explains the importance of the maritime choke points. The statement now justifies the strategic and economic importance of choke points like the Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz and Strait of Malac...
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Beyond the Fishermen Arrests: The Absence of an Integrated Marine Spatial Framework in the Palk Strait
Executive Summary The conflict over the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka has been reshaped as a case of illegal fishing and arrests. However, the deeper gap persists in the lack of a joint maritime spatial planning (MSP) framework between India and Sr...
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