Ashok Malik

The author is partner, The Asia Group, and chair of its India practice

The author is partner, The Asia Group, and chair of its India practice

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• Nehru and Modi: Two leaders, two centuries, one shared ambition to transform India

  
  09 Jun 2026 11:30 PM IST
• Is India's 1991 economic model dead? Why 'reforms' aren't enough & the state must step in

  
  03 Jun 2026 11:33 PM IST
• What Bengal thinks today: Pan-India-wise, May 4 signals more regional parties moving into existential crises

  
  06 May 2026 11:19 PM IST
• Meddle east meditations: India and countries like Pakistan are inactive and active for safety of their citizens and economies

  
  29 Mar 2026 11:05 PM IST
• India's West Asia dilemma: Navigating Iran conflict and Gulf ties

  
  02 Mar 2026 11:35 PM IST
• MAGA spooked MAGA: India’s deft negotiations and anxiety from US business groups pushed the ball

  
  11 Feb 2026 11:08 PM IST
• Budget 2026: It's a timely, textbook case of policy sagacity

  
  01 Feb 2026 11:50 PM IST
• One year of Trump 2.0: The glitz and gab of Davos cannot disguise America's voluntary winding down

  
  22 Jan 2026 12:40 AM IST
• Strategic autonomy is a long game — Indian statecraft needs to accord it that respect

  
  31 Dec 2025 10:45 PM IST
• 2025 reforms form the base for a superstructure to emerge in late 2020s-early 2030s

  
  24 Dec 2025 11:12 PM IST
• What does BJP's victory in Bihar reveal about India's political landscape?

  
  14 Nov 2025 11:55 PM IST
• There is vast space for good old diplomacy, provided India gives the right impetus

  
  19 Oct 2025 11:13 PM IST
• A chill is setting in that will take a long time to recover in the India-US relationship

  
  18 Aug 2025 11:33 PM IST
• India must enhance its potential as trade and tech partner, and look beyond US

  
  21 Jul 2025 11:01 PM IST
• Mother Tongue-Untied: Why urban India may outgrow the language wars

  
  09 Jul 2025 11:16 PM IST
• Shut up and speak clearly: India needs to fix the glaring dissonance in its communication

  
  21 May 2025 11:13 PM IST
• India crosses the rubicon: Deep strikes redefine strategic boundaries

  
  08 May 2025 12:36 AM IST
• Kashmir to cartography: How Pakistan lost the plot and India eyes the map

  
  28 Apr 2025 11:45 PM IST
• Trump has more political room for tariff pain & market volatility than many reckon

  
  14 Apr 2025 11:04 PM IST
• How a standalone ministry of manufacturing and supply chains could do the trick for India

  
  27 Mar 2025 11:09 PM IST
• Quick Gun President: Trump is bringing a day trader’s mentality to diplomacy

  
  05 Mar 2025 11:03 PM IST
• Delhi has handled first weeks of a disruptive Trump 2.0 better than many others

  
  14 Feb 2025 11:32 PM IST
• Budget 2025: Easing middle-class woes, but states must step up

  
  02 Feb 2025 12:30 AM IST
• View: Trump is a product of, not cause for, a return to an era of spheres of influence

  
  19 Jan 2025 10:57 PM IST
• Manmohan Singh: Bharat’s Ratna, a patriot-survivor who persevered

  
  27 Dec 2024 08:32 PM IST
• Does the Indian Government need a DOGE-like agency for efficiency?

  
  26 Dec 2024 11:10 PM IST
• Delhi Dallying with Trump: Accretion in India-US cooperation in two regions, and possible reset in another?

  
  10 Dec 2024 10:43 PM IST
• Why dealing with China along separate economic and diplomatic lines won't work

  
  10 Nov 2024 10:16 PM IST
• Main Hoon Donald: So, what does the oldest US prez hold for his country and our world?

  
  06 Nov 2024 11:06 PM IST
• BRICS: India’s role is to ensure the grouping doesn’t get a distortionary ideological edge

  
  20 Oct 2024 11:09 PM IST
• BJP: Its appeal isn’t that it always wins, but its capacity for constant self-correction

  
  13 Oct 2024 10:42 PM IST
• View: Recommitment to long-term approaches, with the right correctives & responses

  
  24 Jul 2024 12:56 AM IST
• How different will a Modi-led NDA government be from a Modi-led BJP government?

  
  05 Jun 2024 01:10 AM IST
• Viksit elections, Bharat? Onus on EC and next govt to make election process less harrowing

  
  6 mins read26 May 2024
• The last old-style election? Another future likely soon for how India votes

  
  15 May 2024 10:54 PM IST
• Post-polls, expect economic transformation and overhaul of the citizen-state interface

  
  6 mins read17 Mar 2024
• Budget 2024: 4 megatrends that make Modi 3.0 blueprint apparent

  
  01 Feb 2024 11:37 PM IST
• How India’s role in West Asia plays out will have a big impact on its external strategy

  
  6 mins read24 Oct 2023
• Where does the reality actually sit on India-Middle East-Europe Corridor?

  
  6 mins read17 Sep 2023
• The continuity constituency and Modi's re-election bid

  
  6 mins read29 Aug 2023
• View: Where the needle has, and hasn’t, shifted prior to the upcoming state polls and the Big One

  
  6 mins read30 Jul 2023
• View: Orthodoxies outside govt are fixating on US-India divergences than strategic commonalities

  
  6 mins read11 May 2023
• A Budget that tidies up the house for private investment to soon come a-surging

  
  02 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST
• Institutionalising habit formation in govt has a value greater than the sum of the habits

  
  7 mins read10 Nov 2022