Opinion Modi's Missile Dilemma: Why India Keeps Spiking, and Reviving, a Massive Israeli Arms Deal
A half-a-billion dollar arms deal with Israel has become an electoral liability for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Shrenik Rao
A Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and an alumnus of the London School of Economics, Shrenik Rao is a digital entrepreneur and filmmaker. Rao revived the Madras Courier, a 232-year-old newspaper, as a digital publication of which he is the Editor-in-Chief. Twitter: @ShrenikRao
Opinion Why India Will Back Iran in a Nuclear Showdown With Trump and Netanyahu
Modi hailed the Iran deal as a diplomatic triumph; he won’t back down from deepening ties with Tehran. But can his warm relations with the U.S. and Israel survive the deal blowing up?
Opinion Can India Really Play 'Best Friends' to Israel, Palestine and Iran at the Same Time?
Netanyahu calls India - Israel relations a 'marriage made in heaven'. For the arms trade and public relations, it certainly is. But as Modi won't betray the Palestinians or renounce the Iranians, it resembles more an open marriage - and that might be far less sustainable
Opinion Hitler’s Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India’s Nazi-loving Nationalists
The ‘Hitler’s Den’ pool parlor that shocked me on a round-India trip 10 years ago was no outlier. Admiration for Nazism – often reframed with a genocidal hatred for Muslims – is rampant in the Hindu nationalist camp, which has never been as mainstream as it is now
Opinion Is Zimbabwe's Coup Part of China's Grab for Africa?
In Harare I was told, a decade ago, that having fought off white minority rule, Zimbabwe was in danger of becoming a 'Chinese colony'. The intimate ties between post-coup leaders and Beijing may mean those fears are becoming reality