Month: May 2025

This is a useful resource from CSDR in Delhi giving a timeline of the Pahalgam/Sindoor crisis.

I spent the last several weeks very intently following India-Pakistan tensions and then clashes; I even seriously re-engaged with Twitter/X, which is the only social media game in town for South Asia.

Stepping back a little bit, I want to recommend two podcast episodes from different parts of the Carnegie Endowment universe that try to give a big picture on different aspects of Indian foreign policy in this new era:

1. Grand Tamasha – just out, Milan Vaishnav interviews Chris Clary on what happened in the India-Pakistan clashes of May 2025, what we might be able to learn from them, and possible futures for the subcontinent.
2. Interpreting India – from October 2024, Vijay Gokhale and D.B. Venkatesh Varma offer an overview of how India will try to navigate its “multi-alignment” strategy in a rapidly changing world. It’s a little out of date obviously, but highlights key questions that have come into sharp relief as India tries to deal with a Trump foreign policy that seems, at least in recent weeks, to be embracing unpredictability and fluidity (including, unexpectedly, on India-Pakistan relations at least rhetorically).