Modi at Hiroshima — Optics, Politics, Reality

Modi at Hiroshima — Optics, Politics, Reality

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits abroad are carefully choreographed events, given their optics domestically. Perhaps, this is even more so today as general elections loom ahead and in Hiroshima, Modi was taking the stage after the crushing defeat in the Karnataka election, which was as much political for the ruling  BJP as personal for Modi…

The 18-Month-Long Sequence of Complications in Indian-American Relations

The 18-Month-Long Sequence of Complications in Indian-American Relations

The past 18 months of Indian-American relations have been characterized by the US abusing its South Asian military-strategic partner as a vassal state instead of respecting it as the equal partner that India truly believed that it was. The Last 18 Months Of Indian-American Relations Indian-American relations have recently been complicated by an 18-month-long sequence…