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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
1/ Quino Energy recently announced a $10 million investment from Hyderabad-based sustainable energy firm ATRI Energy Transition to scale up production of its clothing dye-based electrolyte in 🇮🇳.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Yes: a key question in the coming eco-ideological Cold War will be how India positions itself between the Green Entente and the Axis of Petrostates
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Trends in India's RE landscape, 2014-2025. 🔗 indialog.substack.com/p/trends-in-...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations. indialog.substack.com Check it out --India in the new global order @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 02/10/2025
“What provides India greater freedom of choice and sovereignty? Locking into hydrocarbon coalitions or doubling down on…a green electro-state track? How India chooses to address this question will shape the destiny of its 1.4 billion citizens—and the world.” - @shreyas-shende.bsky.social
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India in the New Global Order
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 12/09/2025
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
1/ Really insightful piece by @tdeol.bsky.social on how NDCs can be a helpful entry point to properly integrate health in the climate change response: bit.ly/4nylKRV
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
/ The teams at Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab & the Watson School at Brown (Mathias Larsen & Xiaokang Xue) published an excellent report on the scale and scope of Chinese clean-tech manufacturing investments overseas: bit.ly/3Ih0pxc
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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Footnote 8 gives a plug for @shreyas-shende.bsky.social and Rudra Chaudhuri's chapter, “The Research and Analysis Wing” in Institutional Roots of India’s Security Policy edited by Milan Vaishnav. For #India scholars, definitely give this collection a look. academic.oup.com/book/56133/c...
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The Research and Analysis Wing
AbstractThe Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency, has been in operation for over five decades, yet the organization
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
1/ Latest in Indialog: indialog.substack.com/p/state-of-r... Using the 2025 @nature.com Index to examine the R&D landscape and explore two questions: 1) how are Indian institutions placed in the index? and 2) how has China performed over the past decade?
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
1/ Thread to keep track of 🇮🇳🇺🇸 ties under Trump 2.0. Starting w this FT piece by @johnreedwrites.ft.com, Andres Schipani & Haohsiang Ko: bit.ly/3DxVIN4 US ultimatums have prompted a "broader realignment on trade by New Delhi" & analysts note 🇮🇳's "meeker" trade stance vis-a-vis the US.
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"Even as 🇨🇳's overall econ faces headwinds, the smaller slice represented by high-tech industries will still present strategic problems for 🇺🇸... it's critical to avoid conflating an economically slowing 🇨🇳 with an industrially & technologically weaker 🇨🇳." @gdp1985.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/41QgKQi
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some ways in which the 🇮🇳 govt can deal with 🇺🇸 on trade: - highlighting the subisidized US agri sector - underlining the tariff-related concessions already made - publicly responding to trade-related rhetoric from the Trump admin More on the India-US trade reln for Indialog: bit.ly/41CFytO
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
14/ The interview is chockful of insights on 🇺🇸 policy in the SA region. Read the interview to understand how U.S. foreign policy towards 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇦🇫🇱🇰🇳🇵🇲🇻🇧🇹🇧🇩 might fare under Trump 2.0: bit.ly/43bOEA3
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thread on India-China ties. Will (hopefully) cover natsec issues, econ ties, and everything in between. 1/ McKinsey report finds that "India is becoming increasingly dependent on upstream imports from China for goods that are then exported to markets such as the US and Europe."
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1/ PM Modi & Pres. Donald Trump recently concluded their 1st bilateral meeting (following Trump's re-election). To understand how 🇺🇸 ties with 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇦🇫 & other SA states will fare under Trump 2.0, I spoke w @dsmarkey.bsky.social & @ethrelkeld.bsky.social for Indialog: bit.ly/43bOEA3. Short thread -
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Trump 2.0's decisions on global health financing might prompt LMICs "to liberate themselves from their long-running dependence on external financiers." Fascinating piece by Dr. Olusoji Adeyi @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social in Development Today journal: bit.ly/4icGFqX. h/t @tdeol.bsky.social
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Africa without foreign aid for health: Free at last? | Development Today
The geopolitical vandalism of Trump II could have the unintended consequence of prompting low and middle-income countries, under duress, to liberate themselves...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
1/ PM Modi & Pres. Donald Trump recently concluded their 1st bilateral meeting (following Trump's re-election). To understand how 🇺🇸 ties with 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇦🇫 & other SA states will fare under Trump 2.0, I spoke w @dsmarkey.bsky.social & @ethrelkeld.bsky.social for Indialog: bit.ly/43bOEA3. Short thread -
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dsmarkey.bsky.social @dsmarkey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Policy Playbook #3: Trump 2.0, India, and the subcontinent with Daniel Markey and Elizabeth Threlkeld
An overview of U.S. ties with South Asian states during Pres. Trump's first administration, analyses of Trump 2.0, and insights on India-U.S. ties from two leading American scholars and policymakers.
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Treasury Sec Bessant pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports at 2.5 % per this @financialtimes.com report. Prez Trump recently threatened duties on semiconductors, metals & pharma goods. Overview of 🇮🇳's top exports to 🇺🇸 (via OEC data, @cesifoti.bsky.social, Atlas of Economic Complexity) >>
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🇮🇳 govt. to work with Trump admin to "identify & take back all its citizens residing illegally in the US" to avoid a trade war & hope that the 🇺🇸 govt. will "protect legal immigration channels used by its citizens."
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Dr. @jayatighosh.bsky.social explains how the decline in the proportion of unpaid women workers is "almost completely explained by the increase in self-employment" & more on the recent labour force data released by the govt: www.theindiaforum.in/economy/what...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Prof. @raulpachecovega.bsky.social has a helpful blog post on cultivating a sustainable writing habit: www.raulpacheco.org/2025/01/deve...
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Developing a sustainable writing practice
One of the first things I teach my students *and* my thesis advisees is how
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fascinating paper by Suyash Rai "The approach that the govt. in 🇮🇳 took to scale-up direct benefit transfers led to a lot of wastage of inputs, 100s of millions of accounts that were opened & maintained are not used, and many more are not regularly used." bit.ly/3PmgTnE
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For my newsletter Indialog [indialog.substack.com] I asked scholars: what works on 🇮🇳 & the subcontinent stood out to you in 2024? See what @milanv.bsky.social @paliwalavi.bsky.social @pstaniland.bsky.social, Ananya Sharma, Shivshankar Menon & others recommend: indialog.substack.com/p/2024-highl...
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Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Grateful to @paliwalavi.bsky.social for including Spying in South Asia www.cambridge.org/9781108843676 in a list of good reads from 2024 www.linkedin.com/newsletters/... Humbling to be mentioned by Avinash. His ‘India’s Near East’ was in my books of the year: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/indias-...
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Spying in South Asia | Diplomatic and international history
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A real pleasure to be part of such a solid list! The folks at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do amazing work & it is always a joy to work with their team @marcus1984.bsky.social. Read my review of @kalramnath.bsky.social's excellent 'Boats in a Storm' - contingentmagazine.org/2024/10/20/a... >>
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A New Citizen in a New World
A reader would have to have blinders on to not draw parallels between the past and the present.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
This is a careful, generous review of Boats by @shreyas-shende.bsky.social that also beautifully maps how the book is in conversation with colleagues and peers. I'm truly grateful to @contingent-mag.bsky.social (which I read on the regular!) for this review.
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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Trying something new with Indialog - my newsletter on Indian national security & public policy issues! Every week I curate research and reportage on 🇮🇳 across #climate, #energy, #foreignpolicy, #politics & more. Subscribe at indialog.substack.com for weekly updates -- (1/n)
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Trying something new with Indialog - my newsletter on Indian national security & public policy issues! Every week I curate research and reportage on 🇮🇳 across #climate, #energy, #foreignpolicy, #politics & more. Subscribe at indialog.substack.com for weekly updates -- (1/n)
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
In 2022, military expenditure rose to $2240 billion globally (the highest ever, as recorded by SIPRI). In this edition of Indialog, my newsletter on Indian national security & public policy issues, I look at India's military expenditure in a comparative context: indialog.substack.com/p/security-i...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
In Feb. 🇮🇳's defense secretary acknowledged the role played by 🇺🇸 intel in aiding India to deal with the 🇨🇳 challenge along the disputed border. For #Indialog -- my newsletter on Indian natsec issues -- I analyze the state of 🇮🇳🇺🇸 defense & intel ties: indialog.substack.com/p/india-and-...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
I reviewed 2 books (authored by @claryc.bsky.social & Satinder Lambah respectively) on India-Pak ties for @lawfare.bsky.social. The books shed light on peace and conflict between 🇮🇳 & 🇵🇰, and as I argue in the piece, hold insights for the future of bilateral ties: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/indi....
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
In Feb. 🇮🇳's defense secretary acknowledged the role played by 🇺🇸 intel in aiding India to deal with the 🇨🇳 challenge along the disputed border. For #Indialog -- my newsletter on Indian natsec issues -- I analyze the state of 🇮🇳🇺🇸 defense & intel ties: indialog.substack.com/p/india-and-...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
I reviewed 2 books (authored by @claryc.bsky.social & Satinder Lambah respectively) on India-Pak ties for @lawfare.bsky.social. The books shed light on peace and conflict between 🇮🇳 & 🇵🇰, and as I argue in the piece, hold insights for the future of bilateral ties: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/indi....
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
This conv. between Srinath Raghavan & Amit Varma - released after the 2019 Pulwama attack - remains one of the most thoughtful and nuanced ones on the history of the India-Pak conflict. seenunseen.in/episodes/201...
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Episode 111: The India-Pakistan Conflict | The Seen and the Unseen
What are the hidden dynamics of the India-Pakistan conflict? What are the possible ways of resolving it? Historian and foreign policy analyst Srinath Raghavan joins Amit Varma in episode 111 of The…
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
TIL - First R&D centre set up by Huawei outside China was in Bengaluru in 1999. h/t Manoj Joshi's 'Understanding the India-China Border.'
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
In 2022, military expenditure rose to $2240 billion globally (the highest ever, as recorded by SIPRI). In this edition of Indialog, my newsletter on Indian national security & public policy issues, I look at India's military expenditure in a comparative context: indialog.substack.com/p/security-i...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Pakistan is heading to the polls tomorrow. In the latest edition of Indialog, I look at how elections might shape 🇮🇳-🇵🇰 ties. While ties have deteriorated over the past decade, recent shifts might augur well for the 2 states: linkedin.com/pulse/2024-e... (1/3)
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
In the latest edition of Indialog, I look at how elections in Pakistan might shape 🇮🇳🇵🇰 ties. While ties have broadly deteriorated over the past decade, there have been a few recent initiatives that augur well for the two states. Read & subscribe to Indialog at: indialog.substack.com/p/2024-elect...
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2024 Election Watch Series (Part I): How might elections in Pakistan affect India-Pakistan ties?
Note for readers: Hello! I started writing Indialog in October 2023 with the aim of publishing something (hopefully) insightful every week. I really enjoy working on this newsletter but if I am to wri...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Insightful conv. between Vijay Gokhale & Srinath Raghavan on India's ties with the U.S., U.K., and China. Amb. Gokahle notes that a key limitation in Indian FP is the continuing lack of engagement between the gov. and external experts: interpreting-india.simplecast.com/episodes/vij... (1/2)
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
I interviewed Vijay Gokhale (former Foreign Secretary of 🇮🇳) on his book 'After Tiananmen: The Rise of China,' for my newsletter Indialog: indialog.substack.com/p/interview-.... The conv. touched on 🇨🇳's rise in the 90s, how perceptions shape 🇮🇳🇨🇳 ties, current challenges to 🇨🇳's leadership & more.
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Interview with Amb. Vijay Gokhale (former Foreign Secretary of India) on India-China ties
I spoke with Amb. Vijay Gokhale about his recent book After Tiananmen: The Rise of China. The conversation touched on China's rise, the lessons that India can draw from its neighbor, how bilateral tie...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
'How the Hindu Right Triumphed in India.' Isaac Chotiner interviews Mukul Kesavan: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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How the Hindu Right Triumphed in India
A razed mosque, a new temple, and the rise of Narendra Modi.
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Insightful CSIS report on pvt sector distribution companies (discoms) in 🇮🇳 finds (i) pvt sector discoms have substantially reduced AT&C losses (energy & commercial losses) & (ii) no correlation between privatization of discoms & electoral prospects for incumbents: www.csis.org/analysis/ind....
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
I interviewed Vijay Gokhale (former Foreign Secretary of 🇮🇳) on his book 'After Tiananmen: The Rise of China,' for my newsletter Indialog: indialog.substack.com/p/interview-.... The conv. touched on 🇨🇳's rise in the 90s, how perceptions shape 🇮🇳🇨🇳 ties, current challenges to 🇨🇳's leadership & more.
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Interview with Amb. Vijay Gokhale (former Foreign Secretary of India) on India-China ties
I spoke with Amb. Vijay Gokhale about his recent book After Tiananmen: The Rise of China. The conversation touched on China's rise, the lessons that India can draw from its neighbor, how bilateral tie...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
An interesting aspect & aim of India's G20 presidency was to 'democratize' foreign policy. 🇮🇳's PM said the G20 has become a "people-driven movement." What does the democratization of FP entail & how can it be studied? I cover this in the 2nd ed. of Indialog: indialog.substack.com/p/democratiz...
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
While researching 🇮🇳🇵🇰 ties and the role of ceasefire violations, I looked up factors that might explain India's (supposed) recent indifference towards Pakistan. While there are many reasons, the difference in the two countries' growth trajectories is striking. indialog.substack.com/p/security-i...
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