India and Myanmar: Not just neighbours
“Over the years, India’s Myanmar policy has largely been driven by security and economic considerations. However, the engagement has at least laid the ground for the two neighbours to take the...
View Article“Re-activating the Stilwell Road”
The Stilwell Road was constructed during the Second World War to connect India to China through Myanmar. Since the war ended, the 68-year old road has been neglected – till now. In 2007, China...
View ArticleIndia’s Myanmar Fascination
Recently Mikkal Herberg, Research Director for Energy at the National Bureau of Asian Research stated, “We talk extensively about oil supply security and rising prices, but I frankly believe that...
View ArticleIndia and Myanmar Relationship Is Necessary for Growth and Security of Both
The Stilwell Road was constructed during the Second World War to connect India to China through Myanmar. Since the war ended, the 68-year old road has been neglected – until now. In 2007, China...
View ArticleA long road ahead for India in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi pulled no punches at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi when she delivered the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on November 14, a full 19 years after she received the Nehru award for...
View ArticleA long road ahead for India in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi pulled no punches at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi when she delivered the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on November 14, a full 19 years after she received the Nehru award for...
View ArticleLessons from the Chin-Mizo experience
The world is recognizing the benefits of linking India’s North East to ASEAN. The governments of India and Myanmar as also international organisations and academic institutions have recently stepped up...
View ArticleSix Reasons for India to Look East
India’s recent economic deceleration highlights a simple truth: the reforms of the 1990s are no longer enough. While the current slowdown is partially cyclical, growth is unlikely to return to above 8...
View ArticleMyanmar in the ASEAN matrix
India’s engagement with Myanmar’s economy is vital for developing our neglected North East states. The Narendra Modi-led government can build on the groundwork laid by former prime minister Manmohan...
View ArticleRaising the bar on India-Myanmar ties
India and Myanmar are showing definite signs of cosying up to each other with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj ending a four-day visit to Nay Pyi Taw, describing the engagements as “very...
View ArticleIndia-Pakistan: False Equivalency
In the wake of India’s hot pursuit of militants into Myanmar, Pakistan has raised numerous alarms about Indian aggression. It has issued various warnings that no such Indian incursion into Pakistan...
View ArticleMyanmar after elections: what next?
Even though the military in Myanmar has accepted defeat, a mixture of uncertainty and concern prevails as to which way the country will move now. At the time of writing, results for only three seats in...
View Article“Re-activating the Stilwell Road”
The Stilwell Road was constructed during the Second World War to connect India to China through Myanmar. Since the war ended, the 68-year old road has been neglected – till now. In 2007, China...
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A winning strategy for the North East
Introduction For most Indians, the North East (NE) has remained largely on the fringes of our sense of India as well as on the periphery of its geography. This is partly because India has ignored the...
View ArticleModi in Myanmar: not a time to be preachy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Myanmar (September 5-7) produced a substantive and positive outcome for bilateral relations. But the disturbed situation in Rakhine state during the fortnight...
View ArticleModi government’s PR failure in Myanmar
When the act itself is the message, why diminish the impact by incendiary triumphalism? But the prime minister’s men with their adolescent fervor to brag about their “score” have been doing just that...
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Myanmar: Resisting Chinese Primacy
Gateway House’s research map on Chinese investments in Myanmar. Researched by Amit Bhandari and Chandni Jindal. While most Asian countries studied by Gateway House are moving toward greater dependence...
View ArticleTapping India’s high equity in Myanmar
The short visit to Myanmar (December 22-23) by India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had a clearly-etched mandate: to deepen cooperation with an important neighbour. His mission succeeded to...
View ArticleNational Security Conversation: India-Myanmar relations
Key takeaways: – India’s recognition of Myanmar’s government cannot be compared with the recognition of the Taliban in Afghanistan. While there was a change in government in Myanmar, the previous...
View ArticleA formal, opportune BIMSTEC
The fifth summit of the regional grouping BIMSTEC, held virtually in Colombo on 30 March, has undoubtedly advanced the cause of regional cooperation and integration. Twenty-five years after it was...
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