The Digital Silk Road in the Indo-Pacific: Mapping China’s Vision for Global Tech Expansion Sameer Patil, PhD & @prithvg examine #China’s strategic objectives behind the #DSR and its challenging the West’s tech dominance in the #IndoPacific. ORF orfonline.org/research/the-d…

Late post: On Feb 2, I delivered a lecture on the ‘Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: Broad Overview and Implications on Indian Foreign Policy’, at the KC College. I was joined by Sameer Patil, PhD for the Q&A session. Sharing some pics from the lecture here. #ORFSPARK

Hostile international entities will seek to manipulate global election outcomes using #ArtificialIntelligence to create a world order where they are the suzerains and their way the common law, I write for ORF orfonline.org/expert-speak/f…

Earlier last week, the ORF faculty engaged in thought-provoking conversations on research writing, fintech, cybersecurity, & disruptive technologies at Christ University-Pune Lavasa Campus as part of the #ORFSPARK initiative. An enriching experience with enthusiastic students!

With the Red Sea crisis expanding into a prolonged conflict, the Suez Canal and Bab al Mandeb strait are added to other slowed down maritime chokepoints in the ECNA corridor, I opine for the ORF. orfonline.org/expert-speak/r…

Observer Research Foundation had the pleasure of hosting a distinguished delegation from the Royal College of Defence Studies, led by Lieutenant General Sir George Norton, Sir George Norton. The delegation, comprising military leaders from 13 nations, discussed the vibrant and inspiring

India must rethink urban institutions and governance to maintain its promised growth in the #amritkaal. Read ORF Urban Frontiers monograph edited by me and Nandan H Dawda,Ph.D here: orfonline.org/public/uploads… Samir Saran Jaibalnnaduvath Nilanjan Ghosh, PhD Anusha Kesarkar-Gavankar Sayli Udas Mankikar

My latest for ORF with Prithvi Gupta on China's Belt and Road Initiative Projects in Cambodia and the strategic logic behind the same. orfonline.org/expert-speak/r…

The ICC’s arrest warrants 4 israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu & others highlight the challenges of delivering justice in contentious environments & raise questions about jurisdiction, complementarity, and legitimacy, Dharmil Doshi and I argue in this piece - orfonline.org/expert-speak/j…

“Terrorism does not directly produce domestic communalism in India. Quite the contrary: It also unites India across communities in anger and grief.” 11/13

The abrogation of Article 370 has nothing to do with Pahalgam terror attack. No terror group radicalises youth to target civilians based on constitutional law arguments. For that you need proper education, not Kalashnikovs. Its a ridiculous insinuation.

Am truly shocked by the marginal, virtually non coverage of the Pahalgam Terror attack in the American media , ignorance, insularity and self obsession-hence even tougher to take huffy puffy op-eds on India seriously. They just don’t get us.

Hope in the Horizon: India’s Youth and Global Futures (Vol. 2) Don’t miss reading ORF‘s compendium by Anusha Kesarkar-Gavankar, #SauradeepBag & Prithvi Gupta or-f.org/33743

🚨 EMOTIONAL OMAR ABDULLAH : "With what face I will demand statehood now?" "I won't use this moment to demand statehood" "It would be SHAMEFUL on my part if I go and tell the central govt that 26 people have died, now give me statehood..." "Srinagar's Jamia Masjid for the

From the history books: Indian soldiers burying dead Pakistani soldiers according to Islamic rituals after Pakistan refused to take back their bodies during the Kargil war

A good story in today’s Indian express

When it comes to defending Bharat, We are not many, We are One. One mission. One message. One Bharat. #OperationSindoor #India #EkBharatShreshthaBharat

#India and #France are celebrating 27 years of strategic partnership. ORF was delighted to host members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and the Armed Forces of the French Senate: Catherine Dumas (Vice-President), Marie-Arlette Carlotti (Questeur of

China and the West: Not bad for a text written 113 years ago.