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Sudha Ramachandran
Sudha Ramachandran is South Asia editor at The Diplomat.
Sudha Ramachandran is a journalist based in Bengaluru, India. She writes on South Asian political and security issues and has closely followed developments in the region’s conflict zones. She is an adjunct faculty at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. Sudha has a doctoral degree from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
March 15, 2025
India Reiterates Mauritius’ Centrality to Its Indian Ocean Region Strategy
By Sudha Ramachandran
Prime Minister Modi announced India’s new MAHASAGAR policy from Mauritius, just as he had unveiled the SAGAR policy 10 years ago.
March 11, 2025
Husain Haqqani on Trump 2.0 and Pakistan-US Relations
By Sudha Ramachandran
Although Pakistan may not be "a priority for U.S. interests as it was earlier... the U.S. simply cannot ignore a nuclear-armed Muslim country with 240 million people."
March 06, 2025
Advantage Akhundzada in Taliban Factional Fight in Afghanistan?
By Sudha Ramachandran
Senior ministers Sirajuddin Haqqani and Stanikzai remain abroad, six weeks after they left the country.
February 12, 2025
How the RSS Propelled the BJP to Power in Delhi State Elections
By Sudha Ramachandran
While political parties engaged in high-decibel mud-slinging at each other, RSS cadres engaged people face-to-face in meetings in their homes. It worked.
February 06, 2025
China Promises Support to Bangladesh’s Interim Government
By Sudha Ramachandran
Beijing’s extension of a helping hand to the Yunus-led interim government comes at a time when Delhi-Dhaka relations are acrimonious.
February 03, 2025
Ali Riaz on Recommendations of Bangladesh’s Constitutional Reform Commission
By Sudha Ramachandran
“The Bangladeshi state’s relationship with religion under the revised Constitution as recommended by the CRC would not be different from past decades.”
January 28, 2025
Challenges Ahead for India-Indonesia Cooperation
By Sudha Ramachandran
The much-anticipated announcement about Indonesia’s purchase of the BrahMos missile from India did not happen.
January 27, 2025
Y Nithiyanandam on the Risks of China’s Ambitious Yarlung Tsangpo Project
By Sudha Ramachandran
“Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an already delicate regional equilibrium”
January 23, 2025
Why India’s Fence Along its Bangladesh Border Riles Dhaka
By Sudha Ramachandran
Advisers in the interim government argue that four agreements signed by the Hasina government with India are unequal.
January 10, 2025
India Steps Up Engagement with the Taliban Regime
By Sudha Ramachandran
Its top-most diplomatic official engaged with the Taliban’s acting foreign minister in Dubai recently.
December 10, 2024
With Fall of Bashar al-Assad, India Loses a Friend
By Sudha Ramachandran
Syria under Assad was a strong supporter of India on the Kashmir issue, a rarity in the Muslim world.
December 09, 2024
Ahmad Shuja Jamal on the Taliban and the Big Powers
By Sudha Ramachandran
“Trump’s statements, the views of his senior Cabinet nominees, and the dynamics in Afghanistan do not make recognition [of the Taliban regime] likely in the foreseeable future.”
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