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Beyond Signatures

India’s recent trade diplomacy has produced an unusual paradox. New Delhi is negotiating or concluding trade agreements with a range of partners even as questions persist about what earlier agreements have actually delivered.

Beyond Hormuz

The geopolitical shock created by the Iran conflict is forcing countries far beyond West Asia to confront an uncomfortable reality: energy security can no longer be built around a single region, a single route or a single set of political assumptions.

Years of Grace

It was in 1982 that Dr Grace McCann Morley was bestowed the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India for her stellar contributions to the establishment of the National Museum in New Delhi.

Kitchen Security

War in West Asia rarely feels distant in India’s kitchens. When tensions rise around the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the consequences travel quietly through tankers, ports, and refineries before arriving at the most ordinary place in the economy: the household cooking stove.

New Benchmarks

Reliable macroeconomic statistics are fundamental to economic governance. Last year, the IMF, even while revising India’s GDP growth projections upwards, assigned a “C” rating to our National Accounts Statistics in its Data Quality Assessment due to methodological weaknesses.