https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/topics/south-asia India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal and the Himalayan frontier. en https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/assets/brand/icon-512.pnghttps://geopoliticaleconomist.com/topics/south-asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/three-myths-the-west-gets-wrong-about-cpec https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/three-myths-the-west-gets-wrong-about-cpec Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Laiba Afzal Beyond the headlines: why calling a $62 billion trade corridor a "debt trap" misses what is actually happening on the ground. South Asia Indo-Pacific https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/what-indians-protest-about-exams-not-prices https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/what-indians-protest-about-exams-not-prices Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Vikas Part 2 of The Protest Question. The grievance behind India's record protest count is the state's failing examination and hiring machine, not the cost of living. The data shows where the pain is, when it erupts, and what companies operating in India should read into it. South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/are-indians-protesting-more https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/are-indians-protesting-more Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Vikas Every count of protests that exists for India points the same way. The ACLED event record shows demonstrations up by half since 2016 and at a record in 2024 to 2026. The police's own count of agitations was rising before that. A catalogue of 217 major protests since 2000 shows the rate doubling since the late 2010s. The protests are also more peaceful than a decade ago. What has fallen is rioting, which is a different thing. South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-after-nato-balloon-economy https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-after-nato-balloon-economy Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai From the pre-9/11 battlefield to two decades of foreign-funded state-building — and now a search for economic survival South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/ai-power-next-thirty-months-india-russia-witness https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/ai-power-next-thirty-months-india-russia-witness Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Yashwant Singh India and Russia cannot win the race for capacity. They can contest the race for standing, and standing has a shorter clock. South Asia Russia & Eurasia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/cost-of-partition-1947-south-asia-economy https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/cost-of-partition-1947-south-asia-economy Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent? South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-india-what-if-we-were-not-enemies https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-india-what-if-we-were-not-enemies Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/india-israel-shared-sovereignty-problem https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/india-israel-shared-sovereignty-problem Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Yashwant Singh India's manufacturing scale without design-and-verification depth, and Israel's design-and-verification depth without manufacturing scale, are mirror-image versions of the same incomplete sovereignty position. Converging them is not merely good industrial policy. South Asia Middle East & North Africa https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-afghanistan-trade-deadlock https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-afghanistan-trade-deadlock Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai When two neighbours close their doors, both sides pay the price. South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/bangladesh-brics-absence-was-about-more-than-protocol https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/bangladesh-brics-absence-was-about-more-than-protocol Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Kawsar Mia and Dr. Abdul Momen Dhaka's no-show in New Delhi exposed a narrowing strategic space between BRICS-style financial autonomy and new U.S.-linked economic-security commitments. South Asia Americas Indo-Pacific https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/why-india-and-china-secretly-want-the-dollar-to-survive https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/why-india-and-china-secretly-want-the-dollar-to-survive Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Vikas The bloc's two biggest economies hold trillions in dollar assets, and their rivalry makes a shared alternative even less likely. Indo-Pacific South Asia Americas https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/chinas-water-bomb-nepal https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/chinas-water-bomb-nepal Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Vikas Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe. 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