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Indus Waters Treaty: The Fragile Pact That Survived Wars But Faces a Hard Reckoning
The Indus Waters Treaty is often celebrated as a rare India-Pakistan agreement that survived wars, terrorism crises, and decades of diplomatic hostility. This analysis explains why survival alone is not the same as success. It examines the treaty’s 1960 structure, the division of eastern and western rivers, the role of the Permanent Indus Commission, and…
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Rebuilding Sonar Bangla: Bengal’s Powerful Path Back as India’s Eastern Gateway
West Bengal’s decline was not inevitable; it followed Partition, policy errors, institutional weakness, labour conflict, and missed industrial opportunities. The article explains how Bengal once combined ports, factories, railways, finance, education, and cultural confidence to become one of India’s strongest economic regions. It highlights the rupture of the jute economy after Partition and the long-term…
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Déjà vu in Pakistan: The eerie similarities between 2023 and 1971
Pakistan is facing a complex set of political and economic challenges in 2023, which bear some striking similarities to the situation the country faced in 1971. In both cases, the popular electoral choice has been kept out of power, bad economic markers such as GDP and inflation have been on the rise, and regional identity…