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The Cost of Going Global
In a more fragmented global economy, India’s competitiveness will depend not just on what it makes, but on the cost of getting it to the world. AI generated image At a time when India is trying to build itself into a major manufacturing and export hub, the cost of getting a product from a factory to a foreign buyer is becoming as important as the cost of making it. A manufacturer can produce competitively and still lose that advantage to expensive freight, port delays, insura
Archita Gaur
Sep 274 min read
Rivers of Discord and Power
As the Indus Waters Treaty collapses under the weight of arbitral boycotts and upstream infrastructure competition, South Asia’s river basins are fast becoming the region’s defining geopolitical flashpoint. For over six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 stood as a singular, almost miraculous anomaly in the turbulent geopolitical landscape of South Asia. Brokered by the World Bank after nine years of painstaking diplomacy, the treaty successfully withstood three major w
Hridbina Chatterjee
Sep 58 min read
Kaliningrad and the Ghosts of Prussia
From Teutonic fortresses to modern missile garrisons, the contested geography of the Baltic has made Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, a recurring European flashpoint. Russian naval and missile forces make Kaliningrad a strategic hinge on NATO’s eastern flank. In 1736, Swiss polymath and mathematician Leonhard Euler sat down to solve a quirky civic obsession that Königsberg was renowned for: how to stroll across all seven bridges of the historic capital of the East Prussian city e
Shoumojit Banerjee
Aug 299 min read
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