Worldview with Suhasini Haidar

The US’s Gaza proposal and talks with Russia threaten to turn the template of global alignment. Is the Transatlantic alliance at an end, or is Trump simply bargaining for a better deal with Europe? And how should India react to this global churning? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Paris and then Washington, sent out distinctly separate, but equally significant messages on India’s worldview. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After targeting Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland, putting tariffs on China, and staking a claim to Gaza, what should Prime Minister Narendra Modi expect during his visit to Washington next week? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is New Delhi making a subtle strategic outreach to its south Asian neighbourhood this season? Bhutan’s King, Sri Lanka and Maldives’ presidents, Nepal’s Foreign Minister received warm welcomes in Delhi. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s been more than a week since the US Department of Justice, FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission issued indictments- charging the Adani group, its top leadership including Gautam Adani of a conspiracy to bribe Indian government officials for contracts, and defrauding US investors by raising capital through bonds issues. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

Bangladesh’s interim government, that was formed after protesting mobs forced former PM Sheikh Hasina to flee the country, says it has brought law and order under control and started a reform process for a number of institutions, including electoral reforms, in its first 100 days in office. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Within a week of being elected the next U.S. President, Donald Trump has wasted no time in choosing his team. What do his top ten cabinet picks say about the next four years in the U.S., and what will they mean for India? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world view of many countries, especially the U.S. has definitely changed with this week’s election results. Donald Trump, U.S.’s 45th President will now also be its 47th President come January. We will discuss the broad shifts we expect, and how India will be affected by them. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week WorldView comes to you from Pakistan. S. Jaishankar travelled to Islamabad for the SCO and meetings with Pakistan's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we are speaking about Jammu Kashmir, where voters have now participated in 3 phases of polling for the first state elections in a decade and the message New Delhi is sending out over it. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel broadens the war in Gaza with an air attack on Lebanon, is the crisis in West Asia about to escalate? And as the one-year mark since the October 7 terror attacks approaches, PM Modi meets the Palestinian President. Has India’s position shifted at all? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The timing of PM Modi’s visit to the UN makes it even more interesting—this is the 4th time Mr. Modi has travelled to the UN during what’s called High-Level Week—after 2014, 2019 and 2021., although he will not address the UN General Assembly this year. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two weeks after we reported on PM Modi’s mission to Kyiv, the NSA and EAM were travelling – and the flurry of activity has sparked speculation about an Indian role in ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict- is it likely? Possibly effective or even feasible given the latest escalation in the war.  Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are going to look at India’s ties with its near neighbours to the East- ASEAN countries, and particularly his visits this week. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Six weeks after his Moscow move, PM Narendra Modi arrived in Kyiv. Was the Prime Minister’s mission in Ukraine just about geopolitical balancing, or does New Delhi now essay a more ambitious role in mediating in the Russia-Ukraine war? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where does the Indian diaspora stand on Kamala v Usha, and is Desi heritage now a fixture in U.S. politics? Feisty messages coming in from the Harris and Trump campaigns in the U.S. in those latest ads. Less than a month since U.S. President Joseph Biden bowed out of the Presidential race- and we had spoken about the possibilities in WorldView on June 19, just 2 days before he withdrew his nominat...

As Bangladesh boiled over- -Its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka after being in power for 15 years- she is now at an undisclosed location in India after landing at the Hindon airbase on Delhi’s outskirts, -  Days of protests and violence, then saw mobs ransacking Hasina’s homes and Mujib’s memorial. Attacks on Hasina’s Awami League supporters and their properties have seen minorities, parti...

The news could not have been more dramatic- just hours after Palestinian leader and Hamas Political chief Ismail Haniyeh had met with the new Iranian President, and attended President Pezeshkian’s inauguration, the Iranian guard IRGC announced he had been killed- while there is still some confusion over how he died- with Iran blaming Israel for a missile strike, while US and Israeli news reports p...

Nearly 200 are dead from violent student protests and firing by forces in Bangladesh – is PM Sheikh Hasina, who won elections just a few months ago, losing her grip on gen-next, and will the unrest India’s closest neighbour is grappling with, spill over? Read more here. Listen to the Hindu's In Focus podcast episode on Bangladesh protests here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

The US election campaign takes a deadly turn- with Trump and his new Vice President choice surging in the polls after the assassination attempt, and pressure building on President Biden to step aside for another candidate- what are the major issues for voters, and what will decision 2024 in the US mean for India? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There were many firsts to PM Modi’s two day visit to Russia, his first since the invasion of Ukraine, and his first destination for a bilateral summit in his 3rd tenure in office, the first time they held the Annual Summit since 2021, and the first time an Indian leader was awarded Russia’s . While officials billed it as a purely bilateral visit, it won attention internationally, and censure from...

Elections herald change in UK with a Labour landslide, but also France and Iran, while the campaign trail hits a shocking turn in the US- Should New Delhi worry about losing friends in high places and how will results change the geopolitical landscape for India? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You could call it the Tale of two trials: With the extradition of an Indian Nikhil Gupta to the US, and the arrest of 4 Indians in Canada, India is expected to face a number of questions over its operations on targeting Khalistani separatists in the west. This week marked many anniversaries - A year since Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani separatist wanted on terror charges in India, was gunned d...

As PM Modi picks the same team for diplomacy and national security- will there be any changes in Indian Foreign Policy in his third term with a coalition in charge ? What’s on his agenda for travel, and what are the foreign policy priorities for the new NDA government? Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza- now nearly 250 days of it- in retaliation for the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas- the latest civilian casualties, after Israel Defence Forces launched strikes on a refugee tent city in Rafah, an area designated a safe zone by Israel itself- killing about 45, many burnt to death while asleep and injuring 200. Read more here. Learn more about your ad cho...