Articles By Amit Dasgupta
India's backyard Dilemma: Can it afford to let Maldives slip away?
By: Amit Dasgupta | Date: 07 Mar , 2018
Idyllic Maldives faces a serious constitutional crisis and there are no indications that President Abdullah Yameen is willing to soften his position. On the contrary, all indications are that...
India-China Ties: Rethinking the Terms of Engagement
By: Amit Dasgupta | Date: 04 Mar , 2017
China has mastered the art of bullying as strategy. Pradeep Khosla, an American of Indian origin, who is Chancellor at the University of California, San Diego, did not anticipate the reaction from...
India needs to re-craft its Beijing and Islamabad Policies
By: Amit Dasgupta | Date: 16 Jan , 2017
India-Pakistan relations have oscillated over the past 70 years between uneasy calm and open hostility, including wars. For Islamabad, the initial narrative on bilateral relations, based entirely...
SAARC is Dead! Long Live Regional Cooperation
By: Amit Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 27 Aug , 2016
The 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit is scheduled for November this year in Islamabad. As with previous SAARC summits, doubt persists as to whether the Summit...
India-Pakistan relations: Just too many Elephants in the Room
By: Amit Dasgupta | Date: 26 Feb , 2016
When the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers had agreed, late last year, to resume official level dialogue, it led to unrealistic expectations. This is the curse India-Pakistan meetings suffer...