Maya Mirchandani

Opinion: On Chabahar, India Must Recover Lost Ground With Iran Quickly

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Saturday July 18, 2020

Ripples in the India-Iran bilateral relationship have risen to the surface once again, forcing the question of whether India's policy and commitment towards the development of the Chabahar Port project is unraveling.

Opinion: What Nepal’s New Aggression Reveals For India And Its Neighbours

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Friday May 22, 2020

The lesson from this latest controversy with Nepal is simple - episodic interest when things get out of hand can only ever be just a temporary solution. As a new map becomes a new irritant, it seems all the more urgent for Delhi to pursue a coherent neighborhood policy and remain engaged at high levels. It must forge new relationships and revive ol...

Opinion: How Trump Visit Could Leverage CAA And Kashmir Against PM Modi

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Wednesday February 19, 2020

As India rolls out the red carpet to receive US President Donald Trump next week, rough spots that have arisen in the wake of the Modi government's decisions on Kashmir and the subsequent passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act will need diplomatic resolution.

Opinion: The Danger Of Cheering The Telangana Police

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Saturday December 7, 2019

December 16th marks seven years since the brutal Delhi gang-rape. Nirbhaya - or "fearless" - was the name the young intern was given by an anguished nation for the two weeks she survived after the horrific attack. As she battled for life, an entire country prayed with her family. We prayed for her recovery, we prayed for justice and we prayed that ...

Opinion: Much Rides On Bibi, Modi And The 'Bromance'

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Monday January 15, 2018

While India and Israel's positions on 'Islamic' terrorism and shared economic interests highlight similarities between the two countries, it is up to India to make sure it continues to stay on the path it has chosen, of keeping the balance it has assiduously achieved and not succumbing to ideological, hyper-nationalist rhetoric driven by right wing...

Blog: How India Beat UK For Major Win At World Court (ICJ)

Blog | Maya Mirchandani | Wednesday November 22, 2017

What is clearly being considered a major triumph for Indian diplomacy has been viewed as major a defeat for Britain, leaving it without a representative at the international court for the first time in 71 years. In some ways, perhaps, the final defeat of the Empire by an erstwhile colony.

Opinion: What Followed After Modi-Trump Hug Was Net Win For India

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Tuesday June 27, 2017

It's time now to roll up some sleeves and get down to brass tacks to ensure India-US ties stay the course reaffirmed at today's meeting, without the whim of individual leaders coming in the way. The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating.

Opinion: This New Move Will Test India's Equation With Both Pak And China

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Saturday June 10, 2017

The inclusion of two sparring neighbours into a grouping led by India's regional nemesis is enough to make any head turn and ask whether individual nations will be able to leave aside bilateral differences for the greater good, or whether, like SAARC, cooperation here too will become hostage to the India-Pakistan dispute.

Opinion: As Sri Lanka Leans Towards China, Modi's Trip Has High Stakes

Opinion | Maya Mirchandani | Wednesday May 10, 2017

With Beijing's advances, time is clearly of the essence, and the need to regain ground lost to China is of paramount strategic importance for India.

Blog: Iran Refuses To Sideline China And Pak, Irking India

Blog | Maya Mirchandani | Friday May 5, 2017

While Iran drags its feet on awarding a crucial contract for gas exploration in its Farzad B offshore field to ONGC Videsh, India has decided to cut back on oil imports from Iran by 3 million tons (roughly 25 percent) in the current financial year.

Blog: Mehbooba Mufti's Most Unsuitable Partner, The BJP

Blog | Maya Mirchandani | Monday April 24, 2017

There have been many turning points in the political history of Kashmir. But the coalition of partners so ideologically antithetical to each other was perhaps a curve ball many in the Valley have not been able to recover from.

Blog: Revisiting The Clash Of Civilizations

Blog | Maya Mirchandani | Monday February 6, 2017

Fundamental Western concept is at the heart of American Nationalism. Or is it? Over a decade after he wrote the Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington asked Americans a fundamental question - "Who are We?"

Weapons Of War - The Women Of Bastar

Maya Mirchandani | Saturday November 12, 2016

Every Life Counts travels to India’s tribal heartland – Bastar – where women have become collateral damage of a bloody conflict between Maoist insurgents and the state. Weapons of war exposes the ugly reality of brutal sexual abuse that Bastar’s impoverished tribal women are subjected to, and the intimidation of those who try to bring t...

Dalai Lama To Visit Arunachal Pradesh Next Year, China May Protest

India News | Reported by Maya Mirchandani, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday October 27, 2016

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is expected to visit Arunachal Pradesh early next year, which may rattle China that claims the state to be a part of southern Tibet.

Blog: India May Have Over-Played Pakistan At BRICS Summit

Blog | Maya Mirchandani | Tuesday October 18, 2016

In keeping with the message the Government of India has been pushing even before the Uri attack, the Prime Minister's stream of tough words aimed at isolating Pakistan for its support to terror groups that act against India, made headlines through the two day BRICS and BIMSTEC meetings that took place in Goa on October 15 and 16.