Dr. V.L. Dharurkar

Belgium’s place at the heart of Europe is giving India a new opening into the continent’s trade, technology and defence networks. Despite not being a great power nor having France’s military weight nor Germany’s industrial heft, few countries of the size of Belgium occupy such a consequential patch of the geopolitical map. Wedged between France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and sitting on the North Sea, Belgium is close to the principal political, economic and military centres of...

In an India-US relationship increasingly tested by geopolitics, a direct line between leaders may do more than a round of public diplomacy. While diplomacy is often imagined in the grand settings of summit tables and choreographed handshakes, some of its most consequential work happens without any of them. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent conversation with US Vice-President JD Vance is in this less glamorous sense. Amid the chill pervading India-US relations, the significance of the call...

As unrest engulfs Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, economic hardship, political alienation and a forceful state response are exposing the widening cracks in Islamabad’s governance of the region. Pakistan today finds itself confronting multiple internal crises at once. While the world focuses on its troubled ties with Afghanistan and the long-running insurgency in Balochistan, another front has opened within Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Weeks of sustained protests have exposed a reservoir of...