1. Traffic in New Delhi, India, February 13, 2010 (Kalpana Chatterjee)

    India’s Licence Raj Refuses to Die

    India cannot afford a Hindu rate of growth in the twenty-first century but necessary reforms are not forthcoming.

  1. Aerial photo of Maldivian atolls (Haanee Naeem)

    China Island Hopping in the Indian Ocean

    Across the region, China is building a “string of pearls” of military bases in order to contain India’s rise.

  1. Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh of India and Jacob Zuma of South Africa meet in Pretoria (PTI)

    India Able to Offset Chinese Influence in Africa

    India could team up with other BRIC nations or champion democracy and human rights in conjunction with the West.

  1. Republican senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, November 3, 2010 (Jonathan Daniel)

    American Senators Push For Engagement with India

    Opposition lawmakers suggested that India “fill the vacuum in Kabul once we leave,” a Pakistani horror scenario.

  1. Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan and Manmohan Singh of India and President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives during the sixteenth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Thimphu, Bhutan, April 29, 2010 (AP)

    Indo-Maldives Relations Continue to Blossom

    Strategic relations between India and its neighboring island nation have survived political changes and continue to improve.