Start-ups can help India fulfill its goal of self-reliance in defense, but some fundamental challenges need to be overcome.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to India serves as an opportunity to keep the momentum on INDUS-X going. This commentary highlights some areas where the two countries could work toward achieving tangible outcomes in the short term.

In this episode of Interpreting India, Sameer Lalwani joins Rahul Bhatia to discuss India-U.S. defense-industrial cooperation.

American defense technologies can help India reduce its reliance on Russian arms and increase indigenous capacity.

With considerable progress made by India and the United States in deepening defense ties, the bilateral focus is now on furthering defense innovation cooperation. Can the newly announced defense innovation bridge play a role here?

India’s military drone ecosystem has grown rapidly over the last few years and is on a promising trajectory, but it needs to be adequately nurtured.

In this episode of Interpreting India, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili joins Rahul Bhatia to discuss Central Asia and the Russia-Ukraine war.

Against the backdrop of India’s developmental journey through the seventy-five years post independence, Carnegie India scholars reflect on their respective areas of work to talk about how far India has come and where it is going.

In this episode of Interpreting India, Soner Cagaptay joins Rahul Bhatia to discuss Turkey’s role in shaping the Russia-Ukraine war, the rationale behind its actions, the implications of Turkey’s engagement with South Asia on India, and more.

With India lacking the depth of research and design expertise required to build state-of-the-art stealth aircraft, the country needs to prioritize improving on its indigenous fighter, the Tejas.