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Vincent James Hooper

Sep 18, 2026, 11:13 AM

The Soft Machine

The host does not escape the parasite by changing rooms. The parasite is in the blood. Last week in New Delhi, delegations from eleven member states took their seats beneath the lotus at Bharat Mandapam and signed a forty five...

Sep 6, 2026, 10:35 AM

Are India-Israel Ties Bigger Than Gaza?

For us as Indians, the relationship with Palestine is not a recent or distant issue. Since India's independence in 1947, the Palestinian question has occupied an important place in the country's foreign-policy consciousness. Successive Indian governments, from Jawaharlal Nehru...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 6, 2026, 9:38 AM

Was 2024 India’s Third Strategic Loss in Bangladesh?

India-Bangladesh relations through three strategic setbacks in 1975, 1997 and 2024, with the unfinished Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, growing Bangladesh-Pakistan relations and wider implications for Israel symbolized on a geopolitical chessboard. Created by author using AI.

India may have suffered three major strategic setbacks in Bangladesh since helping the country win independence in 1971. The first came in 1975, when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated and the political order closest to New Delhi collapsed. The...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 5, 2026, 10:10 AM

Did Pakistan Defeat India in the Chittagong Hill Tracts?

An AI-generated editorial illustration of PCJSS President Jyotirindra Bodhipriya “Santu” Larma and former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord. The open agreement, surrendered rifle, white dove and Indigenous representatives symbolize PCJSS’s choice of peace and hope for a better Bangladesh. Created by the author using AI; not a historical photograph.

In December 1997, India appeared to secure an important political success without firing a shot. The Bangladesh government and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti, or PCJSS, signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, ending more than two decades of...

Sep 1, 2026, 12:09 PM

Corridors and Caliphates: IMEC, the Indo-Mediterranean & the Mecca pact

History shows us that political Islam has time and again interrupted trade between India and Europe. The Mecca Defence Alliance just the latest attempt. Paradoxically, it is more a Sunni Islamic "five eyes" intelligence agreement fashioned to be a...

Purna Lal Chakma

Aug 31, 2026, 5:43 PM

Could One Makkah Pact Clause Put All of India at Risk?

Illustration created by the author using AI: A conceptual map showing how a hypothetical Makkah Pact clause could affect India’s security map if Bangladesh joins the pact. The image is illustrative and not a claim about the confirmed terms of the agreement.

Bangladesh does not need India’s permission to join. But one unknown wartime-access rule could force New Delhi to rethink its entire eastern security map. Bangladesh’s possible entry into the Makkah Pact has become one of the most hotly debated security...

Aug 30, 2026, 5:54 PM

The Emerging Business of Cognitive Warfare: An India–Israel Opportunity

Can one of the world's most innovative democracies and the world's largest democracy build a strategic partnership in the domain of Information and Cognitive Warfare? And if not, what is stopping them? Information Warfare, Narrative Warfare, Psychological Operations (PsyOps), and Cognitive...

Purna Lal Chakma

Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 PM

Could Bangladesh Become South Asia’s Next Ukraine?

Bangladesh is depicted inside a transparent shield associated with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, raising the central question: would the Makkah Pact provide real protection or only a political promise? (AI-assisted illustration created by the author for editorial purposes.)

The possibility of Bangladesh becoming South Asia’s next Ukraine may sound extreme, but two major security developments have made the question harder to dismiss. Dhaka is considering the Makkah Pact while preparing to buy Chinese J-10CE fighter jets. India...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:24 PM

India’s Route to Europe Runs Through Israel

Chat GPT generated sketch of an original picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, in 2026. Credit: Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO. New image available for commercial and non-commercial use.

Could a rail line, a port and a network of cables do what years of diplomacy have failed to accomplish—bind India, the Gulf, Israel, and Europe into a common strategic interest? The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, was conceived...

Purna Lal Chakma

Aug 26, 2026, 12:17 PM

Why Bangladesh’s BNP May Have to Join the Makkah Pact to Survive

The BNP government faces a difficult choice over the Makkah Defence Pact, balancing domestic political pressure, India’s security concerns, Israel’s interest, and the long-standing militarization of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Created by the author for editorial purposes.

Bangladesh has been invited to join the Makkah Defence Pact formed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Dhaka has not accepted yet, but the BNP government says it is considering the invitation positively. For Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, this may...

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