As the title suggests, 'Insides and Outsides' is about two worlds: the household and the country; the family and the society.

Why won't New Delhi formally engage pro-democracy forces next door?

What we see now reveals more things about the nature of the Hindutva project, its aspirations and ideological directions through the decades, than about Zionism.

It is simply not an Indian foreign policy tradition to murder individuals in foreign jurisdictions outside the remit of law, and there is little reason for that to change.

It's been 40 years since over 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Assam's Nellie town. The ghosts of Nellie continue to haunt India even today every time we overlook an incident of hate speech or let perpetrators of violence to go scot free. 

Diplomacy isn’t always shaped by geopolitical realpolitik, contrary to what many purist foreign policy scholars might argue; it can as much be a function of domestic politics and leadership styles.

There is no sense in sacrificing the wellbeing of Indian citizens at the altar of doing business with a rogue military regime next door.

Foreign policy is a sum total of many things, one of which is the character of the domestic polity – even for a supposedly “non-aligned” and non-interventionist Asian middle power like India.

An Assam Tribune article published recently used selective data to say that 'vaccine hesitancy' in the state is exclusive to Muslim-dominated districts.

If India genuinely wants to protect vulnerable people in its neighbourhood, it needs to enact a wholesome asylum policy that doesn’t privilege one group of people over others, takes into account non-religious forms of persecution.

It is absolutely crucial for us to question the very historical, judicial, and moral premise of the exercise.

If Europe doesn’t walk the talk, many more fires will be fanned and lives lost.

The development reaffirms the sovereign right of any refugee displaced by force to decide whether to return to the country of origin, but questions remain about the community's future.

Myanmar doesn’t need pardons to cure its anti-democratic affliction. It needs a bottom-up change in institutional attitudes.

As seen in a recent Times Now interview, Sadhguru's abstract, yet calmly-delivered tirades deliver a sombre edge to the militant spirit of Hindutva politics.

While the electoral dividends from deporting Rohingya maybe significant, it sets an illiberal precedent for India and will only hurdle efforts to establish the country responsible as a South Asian power and secure a seat at the reformed UN Security Council.

The case shows how the Burmese state, despite a transfer of power, continues to use the legal framework to neutralise critical and dissenting views.