Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Ayush Aggarwal Abstract The atrocities caused by the Covid – 19 pandemic are endless for street vendors, but an initiative like SVANidhi brings a sense of security. It would be easy to say that the scheme itself was ideal to bring the necessary change for…
Harsh V. Pant Last week was a symbolic one with Ukraine celebrating its 31st Independence day even as the Russian “special military operation” passed the six-month mark. The euphoria of breaking the shackles of dependence from the former Soviet Union…
Srikanth Kondapalli Despite serious reservations expressed by both Sri Lanka and India, and after a clearance delay of five days, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force vessel Yuan Wang 5 finally docked at the Chinese-leased Hambantota port on 16 August 2022. Of course, the Sri…
Harsh V. Pant The episode is a stark reminder for New Delhi and for the world of how China’s grip on the Indian Ocean is getting consolidated. When the Chinese research ship, the Yuan Wang 5, docked in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota…
TK Arun Six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s sanctions on Russia, curbing its export of oil, gas, food, and fertilizer, the world is a more miserable place, with higher prices, lower growth, diminished ability to combat…
Vithita Jha Abstract The recent controversial visit of the Chinese Vessel Yuan Wang 5 to Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka manifests a new future for transforming diplomatic ties between India and Sri Lanka. The latter’s inclination toward China has called…
TK Arun Bilkis Bano’s rapists were greeted as heroes and garlanded because that act advances an ongoing war, in which women are raped to demonstrate the rapists’ dominance over the victim’s community. We have seen any number of columns expressing…