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India’s bleeding borders

How Unchecked Illegal Migration Is Redrawing India’s Demographic Map For decades, India’s eastern and northeastern borderlands have served as ground zero for one of the subcontinent’s most consequential and least frankly acknowledged crises: the large-scale, unchecked influx of illegal migrants — overwhelmingly from Bangladesh — that has steadily and irreversibly redrawn the demographic, political, and …

India’s bleeding borders

From Energy Dependence to Strategic Partnership: India, the UAE, and the Emerging Security Architecture of West Asia

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 2026 visit to the United Arab Emirates took place at a particularly sensitive geopolitical moment. The ongoing tensions surrounding the U.S.–Iran confrontation, instability in the Gulf, threats to maritime routes, and uncertainty regarding the future regional order transformed the visit from a routine diplomatic engagement into a strategic signal. However, …

India, the UAE, and the Emerging Security Architecture of West Asia

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