by Ausaf Sayeed | Mar 5, 2026 | Geopolitics, Iran, Israel, Middle East
In the lexicon of international diplomacy, silence is rarely the absence of a position. For a civilisational state that once anchored its global identity in moral authority — the land of Gandhi’s non-violence and post-Independence non-alignment — India’s studied...
by Ausaf Sayeed | Mar 3, 2026 | Geopolitics, Iran, Israel, Middle East, USA
On the morning of February 28, 2026, a coordinated US-Israeli airstrike—codenamed “Operation Epic Fury”—reduced decades of carefully constructed Iranian theocracy to rubble, both literally and figuratively. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader for 37 years, was...
by Ausaf Sayeed | Jan 22, 2026 | Geopolitics, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
The formal inauguration of the Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week marks a profound inflexion point in global governance. Though politically endorsed through UN Security Council Resolution 2803, the Board represents a decisive departure from...
by Ausaf Sayeed | Jan 21, 2026 | GCC, Geopolitics, India, India-UAE
As regional fault lines widen, the Modi-MBZ summit cements a partnership designed to withstand volatility through defence interoperability, nuclear cooperation, and digital sovereignty. Diplomacy often speaks loudest in gestures rather than treaties. On January 19,...
by Ausaf Sayeed | Dec 15, 2025 | Geopolitics, India, West Asia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-nation tour to Jordan, Ethiopia, and Oman (December 15-18, 2025) comes amid geopolitical churn in West Asia, marked by a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the crystallisation of a new...
by Ausaf Sayeed | Nov 26, 2025 | Geopolitics, Saudi Arabia, Uncategorized, USA
For India, the era of viewing the Gulf solely through the prism of energy and diaspora is over; it is now a high-stakes theatre of national security The recent visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to Washington marks a definitive turning point in both...
