Michael Kugelman is the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly South Asia Brief and a senior fellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council. An analyst of the region for nearly two decades, he previously directed the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party’s win in the Delhi legislative assembly election in New Delhi on Feb. 8.
An artist paints a large image of U.S. President Donald Trump while standing on a chair. To the right are other painted portraits of the other U.S. presidents.
Shehbaz Sharif and Muhammad Yunus sit side by side in ornate chairs with carved gold details and cream brocade upholstery. Sharif's mouth is open as he speaks. Both men are older, dressed formally, and have their own hands clasped on their laps.
Security personnel patrol near the site of a gunfight between suspected militants and Indian security forces at Ishber Nishat in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Nov. 10, 2024.
A view from the ground and pointed up to the sky shows an Indian flag fluttering atop a flagpole, backlit by the sun. Above and behind it are the blades of a wind turbine. The sky above is a slightly hazy blue, with a few fluffy white clouds inching in from the corner.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk looks at graffiti on the walls of the Dhaka University campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 29.
