Ananth Krishnan

2 days ago | thehindu.com | Stanly Johny |Meera Srinivasan |Ananth Krishnan

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to achieve a quick ceasefire in Ukraine has so far been unsuccessful. Under American pressure, Ukraine had earlier announced that it was ready to observe a 30-day interim ceasefire, an offer Russia rejected.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan |Stanly Johny |Ananth Krishnan

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)U.S. President Donald Trump’s move on April 2, 2025, or “liberation day” as he calls it, — unveiling sweeping tariffs targeting countries around the world — has brought forth enormous uncertainty to an already volatile world.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan |Stanly Johny |Ananth Krishnan

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)“Super afraid” – that’s how Columbia University doctoral student Ranjani Srinivasan feels after self-deporting to Canada. U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agents raided her apartment on the campus housing, claiming she was a “Hamas sympathiser”, and she was forced to take refuge in Canada.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Meera Srinivasan |Stanly Johny |Ananth Krishnan

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)Conspiracy theories serving a political agenda tend to be passionate but are invariably lazy. The shrill political debate and public discourse surrounding USAID’s presence in India has largely avoided hard facts, possibly because not many like truth coming in the way of a useful narrative.

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Stanly Johny |Meera Srinivasan |Ananth Krishnan

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.)Many trace the roots of the Ukraine war to the 2008 Bucharest summit of NATO in which the U.S. proposed membership in the trans-Atlantic nuclear alliance for Georgia and Ukraine, both Russia’s neighbours and Black Sea basin countries. “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO.