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India’s Brain Gain Paradox
India has been experiencing an increasing outflow of its citizens. On December 1, 2021, Nityanand Rai, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, informed Parliament that 881,254 Indians had renounced their citizenship over the past seven years. This exodus comes…
How Rising Majoritarianism Affects India-Bangladesh Relations
Bangladesh has witnessed a spate of communal attacks targeting its principal minority religious community, Hindus, with reports suggesting that miscreants attacked Hindu religious establishments across the state during the Durga Puja festival this October. The violence began after a social…
Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Security Culture
In the over two decades since its 1998 nuclear tests, Pakistan has taken important steps to strengthen its nuclear safety as well as develop and enhance its nuclear security culture—defined by the IAEA as: “the assembly of characteristics, attitudes and…
Challenges to Subnational Diplomacy: The Tangled Roots of Punjab
Since the partition of Punjab—a consequence of the wider India-Pakistan partition in 1947—the “Land of Five Waters” has been the focal point of a war-inducing water dispute and widespread bloodshed. Conservative estimates put the death toll within Punjab during the…
باڑ کے اس پار: بھارت اور پاکستان میں سائبریکجہتی
رواں برس اپریل میں ٹوئٹر، کووڈ ۱۹ کی (تاحال جاری) دوسری لہر کے دوران بھارتیوں سے اظہار یکجہتی کرنے والے پاکستانیوں کے پیغامات سے بھر گیا تھا۔ ہمدردی کا یہ اظہار نہ صرف دونوں ممالک کے خودساختہ سائبر جنگجوؤں کے…
Across the Fence: Cyber Solidarity Between India and Pakistan
In April this year, Twitter was flooded with messages from Pakistanis expressing solidarity with Indians during the (still ongoing) second wave of COVID19. The outpouring of compassion not only stood in contrast to the usual hyper-nationalistic vitriol between the self-proclaimed…