Indrani Talukdar

    Indrani Talukdar is a Fellow at the Chintan Research Foundation (CRF), New Delhi, India. 

    By Indrani Talukdar On 23 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated Defender of the Fatherland Day. This is a day when military personnel and their sacrifices in defending Russia are honored.  During his speech, after praising veterans and current armed forces personnel for…

    By Indrani Talukdar and Monish Tourangbam  The idea of a “New World Order” often rests on the assumption that world politics can somehow be infused with more predictability, rules and fairness and yet this assumption can be highly misleading, and many times perilous.…

    By Indrani Talukdar and Monish Tourangbam U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued a startling directive ordering the United States to resume nuclear testing. The decision followed his allegations that several nuclear powers,  specifically Russia, China, North Korea, and Pakistan were conducting secret underground…

    By Indrani Talukdar and Monish Tourangbam Last month, responding to a question during a meeting with the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US President Donald Trump put forward a new timeline for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal saying, “I’m going to make a new…