After years of stalled negotiations, the India–EU Free Trade Agreement is back in focus. With Germany’s backing, New Delhi sees fresh hope—but hard choices on cars, dairy, and climate rules will decide whether 2025 delivers breakthrough or another stalemate.
Read MoreJPMorgan’s decision to scale up its corporate banking presence in India comes at a defining moment. As capex surges and foreign capital seeks certainty, the move underscores how global banks increasingly view India as a long-term growth anchor.
Read MoreWhen Peter Navarro dismisses the Modi–Putin–Xi engagement at the SCO as “troublesome,” he betrays less an analysis of geopolitics and more a symptom of Washington’s unease at losing its monopoly on shaping global alignments.
Read MoreEvery decade tests India’s ability to balance between power blocs. From Nehru’s Bandung Conference to Indira’s Brezhnev axis, from Vajpayee’s Washington–Moscow manoeuvres to today’s Modi–Putin–Xi engagements, the story is one of continuity: India refusing to be dictated, preferring to script its own terms of engagement.
Read MoreIn Tianjin, as Modi, Putin, and Xi share a rare triangular stage, the encounter transcends summit optics. It echoes Bandung’s diplomacy, Indira–Brezhnev’s axis, and Vajpayee’s balancing act, marking another historical turn in India’s search for strategic autonomy amid shifting global currents.
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