Sumit Ganguly

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Sumit Ganguly

Foreign & Public Diplomacy Military Security India South Asia Sumit Ganguly At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, India’s chief of defense staff, Anil Chauhan, made comments that have drawn rebuke within segments of the Indian media.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sumit Ganguly

On June 8, President Donald Trump ordered roughly 4,000 members of the California National Guard to be deployed in the city of Los Angeles for a duration of 60 days. Under normal circumstances, their deployment would be within the authority of the governor of the state, Gavin Newsom. However, the President can, if conditions so warrant, federalise the National Guard. The conditions under which the President can undertake such an action are narrowly circumscribed.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Sumit Ganguly

On May 23, a federal judge issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s order to prevent Harvard University from admitting international students. This order, which the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, had conveyed in a letter to Harvard’s International Office, was the latest missive that the university had received from the administration.

1 month ago | indianexpress.com | Sumit Ganguly

Even though there are press reports that it has been violated, there is, at least in principle, a ceasefire in place between India and Pakistan. Whether it holds or not and for how long, remain open questions. President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States played a critical role in brokering the ceasefire and that Vice-President J D Vance and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had spoken at length with their Indian interlocutors, thereby helping to bring about the ceasefire.

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Matt Williams |Chitralekha Zutshi |Fazlul Haq |Ian Hall |Nicholas John Wheeler |Sumit Ganguly

Indian airstrikes deep into Pakistan and retaliatory shelling across the border have put the subcontinent on edge once again, with many fearing a further escalation between the two nuclear neighbors. At least 26 people were killed on May 6, 2025, by missiles launched by India, according to Pakistani authorities. India says it targeted “terrorist infrastructure” sites in the operation in response to an attack on April 22 that saw dozens of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir killed by gunmen.