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Unending War
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The collapse of the United States-Iran ceasefire in less than a month is a stark reminder that peace in West Asia has become a remarkably perishable commodity. The ink on the ceasefire with Iran had scarcely dried before missiles are...
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When Barrels and Bullion Fall Out
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As conflict in West Asia continues unabated, India finds itself confronting
the rising cost of economic patriotism
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On 10 May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before a crowd in Hyderabad and asked Indians to change how they...
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The Iran Crisis and India’s Gathering Fiscal Storm
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As the war in West Asia continues to drive up crude prices and fiscal pressures, India’s economic resilience is being severely tested.
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It has been nearly three months since the West Asian conflict began, and its ripple...
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Fuel Shock
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The latest increase in petrol and diesel prices — the fourth hike in just 11 days — underlines how vulnerable India remains to geopolitical turmoil and its own unfinished reforms in the energy sector.
Brent crude surged again after fresh...
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Chaos Diplomacy
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Donald Trump has always understood one thing better than most modern politicians that markets respond to perception. In the grinding drama over Iran, the American president appears to have weaponised uncertainty itself. One day he hints at a diplomatic breakthrough...
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What Are the Outcomes of Modi’s Foreign Visits?
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five nation tour in May has shifted traditional diplomatic relations to a strategic approach, during major global developments such as the West Asia energy crisis, post Operation Sindoor geopolitical tensions and changing global trade dynamics. The...
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Oil Shock
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The renewed conflict involving Iran, America and Israel has pushed global oil markets into panic while revealing India’s dangerous dependence on imported energy and vulnerable maritime chokepoints. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unusually stark appeal to Indians to conserve petrol, diesel...
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When the Cartel Loses Its Grip
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The UAE’s exit from the OPEC signals not just a rupture in oil diplomacy, but a shift toward a more buyer-friendly energy order.
For much of the modern economic age, oil has been less a commodity than a lever of...
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Closing the World’s Jugular
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Trump’s Hormuz blockade seeks to weaponize a chokepoint that history shows is far easier to disrupt than to control.
Across centuries, for rulers and states alike, to command a narrow strait has been to wield power far out of proportion...
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A Ceasefire in Name Only
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A fragile pause between Iran, Israel and America exposes the widening gap between diplomatic signalling and military reality.
By definition, a ceasefire is a temporary suspension of hostilities. In practice, it is often something murkier: a tactical pause, a diplomatic...
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Hormuz: Where Law Meets the Gunboat
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In the world’s most vital oil chokepoint, the elegant certainties of maritime law dissolve into a murky contest of power, risk and coercion.
The Strait of Hormuz is, in the dry language of international law, a “strait used for international...
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An Open Letter to President Donald Trump
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Mr. President,
History has a quiet way of asking uncomfortable questions. It does not shout. It observes. And then, years later, it decides.
What makes a leader endure in its memory? Is it the wars he wages, or the wars...
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