Category: International Relations
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THE DIPLOMACY OF SILENCE
Vaichariki: Power & Diplomacy There is an old convention in diplomacy that the most consequential sentence in a joint statement is often the one that is missing from it. Communiques are read the way physicians read X-rays, not for what is visible but for what should have been there and is not. A paragraph on…
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The Economics of Oil Crisis: Who Benefits from Chaos ?
When a chokepoint burns and a pipeline falls silent, the ledger tightens for one and loosens for another. A Vaichariki essay asking who truly benefits from crisis, and why the easy answer isn’t always the true one.
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BRICS 2026 New Delhi Declaration: India’s Quiet Triumph
After two failed consensus attempts in 2026, India’s BRICS chairship delivered something few expected: a unanimous, 140-paragraph New Delhi Declaration. Inside it – a written Chinese and Russian reaffirmation of India’s UN Security Council aspirations, an unhedged condemnation of the Jammu and Kashmir terror attack, and a string of quieter wins from GIFT City to…
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The Fault Lines of BRICS: A House Divided Against Itself
BRICS has the numbers to resemble a new pole of global power: nearly 40% of world GDP, almost half the world’s population, and three major powers at its core. But beneath the summit photographs lies a deeply divided bloc, strained by the India-China border dispute, Gulf rivalries, the Iran question, the Nile dam conflict, and…
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The Fracture Point: How the 2026 Iran War Broke the Old World Order
The Fracture Point: How the 2026 Iran War Broke the Old World Order Global Order in Transition · West Asia · 2026 The Fracture Point How the 2026 Iran War Broke the Old World Order Multipolarity, Hormuz, and the End of American Certainty By Tarun Goyal · Long Read No treaty was signed to end…
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Kremlin in New Delhi: A message to washington.
Kremlin in New Delhi is more than a ceremonial headline.Putin’s 2025 visit signals that the India–Russia axis remains a central pillar of Eurasian geopolitics and a deliberate reminder to Washington that New Delhi will not be boxed into any one camp.For India, it is a calculated assertion of strategic autonomy; for Russia, it is proof…
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The Delusion of Congress : Great Nicobar Project & RAM Setu
Recently, Sonia Gandhi wrote an article in The Hindu emphasizing the ecological disaster of The Great Nicobar Project. While the project’s development undeniably holds vast strategic and economic promise for India, it also raises critical questions about the inconsistency and hypocrisy in the Congress party’s approach to ecological and cultural heritage issues. Great Nicobar Project:…