Four years after it cut all ties with Afghanistan, the Indian government’s strategy towards the Taliban regime is undergoing a transformation. Sonia Sarkar argues that India’s deteriorating relationship with Pakistan appears to have prompted this, and suggests it damages India’s pluralist reputation
In May 2025 India launched a military assault against Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men. Putatively carried out in the name of avenging the victims' widows, Sonia Sarkar argues that it was laden with patriarchal symbolism, the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP failing to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment
Master's Student, Human Rights and Democratisation, Global Campus of Human Rights, Venice
Sonia holds an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Trinity College Dublin.
Her research interests include the rise of the far right and the growing transnational alliance between the far right in the Global South and Global North.
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