#South Asia

Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? I have been obsessed (read: horrified but fascinated) with epidemics and the inevitable coming plague ever since I read The Hot Zone years ago. I couldn’t sleep for a week, and I still wash my hands obsessively – because I just know that

A year ago, China’s President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged in a closely choreographed series of photo-ops and exchanges at their summit in Wuhan, China. The serene images of Modi and Xi – gazing at pink blossoms and enjoying tea on a boat – telegraphed a return to

Editor’s Note: This is the 25th installment of “Southern (Dis)Comfort,” a series from War on the Rocks and the Stimson Center. The series seeks to unpack the dynamics of intensifying competition — military, economic, diplomatic — in Southern Asia, principally between China, India, Pakistan, and the

On Aug. 3, 2015, news broke that the government of India and the largest Naga rebel organization, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland — or Isak-Muviah — (NSCN-IM), had reached an agreement on the framework for a peace accord. One of us — Kartikeya Singh — has a personal connection to the

Ten years ago today, ten gunmen from Lashkar-e-Taiba launched a complex attack that lasted over 60 hours against India’s commercial capital, Mumbai. They targeted two luxury hotels, one of the country’s busiest railway stations, a café popular with foreign tourists, and a Jewish community center.