Articles By Nilova Roy Chaudhury
Pragmatism is Watchword of India's Foreign Policy: Enemy’s Friend is My Enemy
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 04 Oct , 2019
There is a pragmatism bordering on the Machiavellian that permeates the ‘enlightened self-interest’ that is guiding Indian foreign policy, by which, if an enemy’s enemy is a friend, then an...
India must rethink its Balochistan Policy
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 06 Sep , 2019
That Balochistan, the resource-rich southwestern province of Pakistan, has never been in the news nor captured global attention the way that Kashmir has is perhaps testimony to the PR capabilities...
Masood Azhar a 'Global Terrorist': Diplomatic win for India, going gets...
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 01 May , 2019
The listing of Masood Azhar, head of the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohamed, as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council is a significant diplomatic win for India, which has been seeking...
India reaping strategic dividend of enhanced ties with Saudi Arabia
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 08 Mar , 2019
In the subcontinental blame game that has broken out over the deadly terrorist attack in Pulwama and tit-for-tat air strikes, Pakistan appears to have blinked first with India applying sudden and...
India warily deals with China, issue by issue
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 19 Jan , 2019
In the ongoing great global churning, with countries trying to secure their own interests, India is steering a wary course between a mostly inimical China and an unpredictable Uncle Sam which...
Counter-terror, Indo-Pacific security to propel India's strategic outlook
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 02 Dec , 2018
A decade after the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai from November 26, 2008, held the country paralysed for four days, terrorism remains an abiding concern and challenge for India. In a series of...
2+2 dialogue will strengthen Indo-US convergences
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 05 Sep , 2018
New Delhi intends to convey to Washington that it will keep its own relations with Tehran and Moscow in place when US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis come to...
India, China woo Rwanda, the African Frontier of Asian Rivalry
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 07 Aug , 2018
Just hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping left the landlocked east African nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Kigali to add his weight to the courtship of Rwanda, which has become...
Post-Doklam, China and India work to Manage Bruised Ties
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 20 Jul , 2018
The Chinese yen for order and harmony is visible across Kunming city and throughout southwestern Yunnan province, which borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam and India’s Northeast. Wide, well laid...
Modi, Xi seek to mend fences, send across a message
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 01 May , 2018
The trans-Himalayan summit, featuring the leaders of India and China in the picturesque central Chinese city of Wuhan on the banks of the Yangtze River on April 27 and 28, was not intended to...
India and Iran: Historical ties attain strategic dimensions
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 01 Mar , 2018
Culminating a series of intense high-level engagements with West Asia and the Gulf, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s February 15-17 visit saw India cementing its strategic position in the...
Win at the UN is a big deal for India
By: Nilova Roy Chaudhury | Date: 28 Nov , 2017
When India breached a diplomatic glass ceiling on November 20, 2017, with Justice Dalveer Bhandari’s election to the International Court of Justice, it not just knocked Britain off a pedestal,...