You Are Browsing ‘Indian Subcontinent’ Category
Sri Lanka is expected to be placed under default by rating agencies after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds last month. Worse, in a statement that threatens daily life in the country, the energy minister informed the parliament that the country has run out of money to pay for fuel. This is the first time that the country is facing such a crisis since gaining independence from British rule...
This article was first published on the Foreign Policy Association blogs here. Summing up the general state of awareness in the world that we are living in, an overwhelming majority of the world seems to be either unaware of or unconcerned about the potentially catastrophic confrontation building up in the last two months in the Himalayas between India and China, the world’s two largest countries,...
This analysis was first published on Foreign Policy Association (NY) Blogs here. With protests against China’s investments taking a volatile shape in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Pakistan, it is safe to say that the country’s ambitious expansion via economics in the Indian subcontinent is not going as well as Beijing had imagined. On February 2nd, one person died and more than a dozen got injured...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders with regards visa restrictions for people from seven Muslim-majority states has generated heat across the globe. At the same time, Bangladesh—a Muslim majority state in the Indian subcontinent—is planning to send refugee Rohingya Muslims from neighboring Myanmar to a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal that critics say is ‘unlivable’. According to available...
Trade blocs across the globe have often been just as much, if not more, instruments of geopolitics as they have been about commerce. A gradual but definite swell in cooperation between the South Asian nations east of Pakistan currently is playing witness to the age-old truism. With South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) currently lying comatose due to the India-Pakistan conflict, India is now...
This commentary was first published here. The Stealth Disruptor With most South Asian nations sharing a history that is marred by ethnic, religious and geographic disputes, forming a seamless Union of cooperating members was not going to be easy even in the best of circumstances. Increasingly dwarfing, however, all intra-SAARC issues is the escalating India-China rivalry in the region. For the purpose of brevity,...
 Nation in South Asia){kind=link}
