Articles By Amitava Mukherjee
India must ensure Myanmar's centrality to 'Act East’ Policy
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 23 Aug , 2017
There is a strange dichotomy between what India preaches and what she does on bilateral relations with Myanmar. There is a general acceptance in the corridors of power in Delhi that Myanmar is...
India-Vietnam Strategic Cooperation: Challenging the Dragon?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 11 Aug , 2017
Vietnam’s open invitation to India, at the Delhi Dialogue IX, to make use of its (India’s) good offices to ensure strategic security and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea (SCS) can...
Iran will continue its quest for strategic space in South Asia
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 27 May , 2017
Although Hassan Rouhani, the reformist incumbent Iranian President, has been reelected with a thumping majority in the May 19 presidential poll leaving behind Ebrahim Raesi, his nearest...
India-Bhutan Ties: Perceptional Differences and the China Factor
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 02 Feb , 2017
It will not be an overstatement to say that India-Bhutan relations will continue to be marked by an element of potentiality and mutual distrust in 2017 as ground realities are not expected to...
Border Tension Leaves India-Pakistan Trade in Crisis
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 05 Dec , 2016
Increased tension along the Line of Control (LOC), particularly in the wake of reported Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack at Uri and Indian surgical strike in response, has left its mark on...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: A New Sinister Factor in the Afghan Imbroglio
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 18 Nov , 2016
The peace agreement between the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar may further obfuscate the already confused Afghan scenario. There are reasons behind the suspicion...
Can BBIN Work as Antidote to Failures of SAARC?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 22 Oct , 2016
As Pakistan is now aiming for a greater South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) with China and the Central Asian states in its fold, the importance of the emerging...
Damming the Brahmaputra: Is Beijing sending a message to New Delhi?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 15 Oct , 2016
For India, disturbing news has come from the Himalayas. China has announced that it would block the water of the river Xiabuku, a tributary of the Brahmaputra River (called Yarlung Tsangpo in...
India’s Military Engagement in Afghanistan Could Ruffle Many Feathers
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 14 Sep , 2016
The apprehension has come true. The Taliban has now expressed its displeasure over India’s decision to supply arms to the Afghanistan government. New Delhi has already supplied to Afghanistan...
Pakistan's Next Army Chief: Will Nawaz Sharif Have a Say?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 09 Sep , 2016
A war of authority between the civil and military authorities of Pakistan over the selection of a new army chief is likely to take place as Raheel Sharif, the incumbent chief of the Pakistan army,...
Bodo Problem in Assam has Broader Security Implications
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Date: 18 Aug , 2016
The massacre of 14 people in Kokrajhar, Assam and identification of the body of the slain terrorist as that of Manjar Isleri, a self-styled area commander of the 16th battalion of the National...
Playing it Big or a Proxy?: Bangladesh’s Growing Closeness to China
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Date: 29 Jun , 2016
In the last week of May 2016, Bangladesh had hosted the Chinese Defence Minister, General Chang Wanguan, in a quiet manner. But, the visit must have raised eyebrows in the corridors of power in...
Greater Economic Interaction can keep SAARC afloat
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 17 Jun , 2016
There is now a distinct possibility that in the 19th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to be held in Islamabad and Murree in November this year, Pakistan may...
India needs to keep its eyes open, lest it loses Myanmar to China
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 13 Jun , 2016
China is now all set to gain a major advantage in the strategic scenario of South Asia as Myanmar has awarded contracts to a China-led consortium for constructing a deep-sea port and a special...
Bhutan-China boundary negotiation: Should India worry?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Date: 16 May , 2016
In addition to the diplomatic retreat that India had to swallow over its relations with Nepal, especially with China gaining a new strategic depth in that Himalayan country in the wake of the...