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Indrani Bagchi is a senior diplomatic editor at The Times of India, where she has been reporting and analyzing foreign policy issues for the newspaper since 2004 and blogs with ‘Globespotting’. Earlier, Indrani worked as associate editor for India Today. She started her journalism career at The Statesman before moving to The Economic Times in Calcutta to edit the Metro Magazine.
Indrani was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. In 2010, India was awarded the Chang Lin-Tien fellowship by the Asia Foundation to study US-China relations at Brookings Institution, Washington DC. She is a Fellow of the third class of the India Leadership Initiative of Aspen Institute India and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

‘Beijing acting more repressively at home and more aggressively abroad’: Antony Blinken

Indrani Bagchi Jul 29, 2021

On his first visit to India, US secretary of stateAntony Blinkensat down for a conversation withIndrani Bagchion the Quad, the future of Afghanistan and the US-India priorities going forward. Excerpts from the interview:

Afghanistan: Graveyard of empires, ready for a new life

Indrani Bagchi Apr 23, 2021

Despite whatever they may have said to American negotiators during the Doha talks, there is little evidence that the Taliban have given up their ties to Al Qaeda or other terror groups

Delhi takes control of India-Pakistan narrative

Indrani Bagchi Apr 23, 2021

There appears to be a growing realisation among the upper echelons of Pakistani decision-making apparatus that the country’s strategic trajectory is unsustainable

For India, climate change not a burden, but an opportunity

Indrani Bagchi Apr 22, 2021

The geopolitical-tech-economic future of climate change policies will be determined by a handful of nations – US, EU, India, China, Japan. Everyone else come afterwards

Myanmar in the balance: West must beware sledgehammer sanctions, which will snuff out the democratic…

Indrani Bagchi Mar 21, 2021

The world – certainly India – has deep stakes in Myanmar. Let’s acknowledge this reality before rushing to consign our next door neighbour to perdition after last week’s coup.

Quad: The new toolkit: For India this could be another Y2K moment – which put it on the path of…

Indrani Bagchi Mar 21, 2021

“The four leaders did discuss the challenge posed by China, and they made clear that none of them have any illusions about China. But today was not fundamentally about China.” Jake Sullivan’s succinct remarks after the first-ever Quad…

Out of the closet: With BECA and other initiatives, India is working with a superpower. It must stay…

Indrani Bagchi Nov 1, 2020

India and the US began a journey in 1998, with the first conversation between Jaswant Singh and Strobe Talbott. This week, the two countries signed off on Book 1 of that journey, when India signed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation…

India should take the lead in the Quad

Indrani Bagchi Nov 1, 2020

The first standalone Quad ministerial in Tokyo on October 6 holds the promise for something much larger, giving a new direction to Indo-Pacific geopolitics. But what, exactly?

What’s behind Chinese intrusions? Beijing needs to save face globally. Expect a long LAC faceoff and…

Indrani Bagchi Oct 16, 2020

This story first appeared in The Times of India At this moment, those with idle fingers and competing political agendas are fighting an India-China boundary conflict on social media, which include calls to fire top army commanders,…

A new order: When the world emerges from the pandemic, we’ll wake up to a new multilateral…

Indrani Bagchi Oct 16, 2020

The world might be in the throes of a pandemic but that hasn’t stopped some from planning for a post-Covid world and imagining a new global order. Well, we should be careful what we wish for.