Rising to the China Challenge: Winning through Strategic Patience and Economic Growth By Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, Raghunath Mashelkar, Ganesh Natarajan, Ajit Ranade, Ajay Shah Introduction I have always wondered why India is not a superpower while our neighbour China is, given how their trajectories of economic growth appeared to be parallel. While I found…

Global cities such as Singapore are hubs drawing on a rich history of the Indian Ocean and the British Empire. Singapore marked the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. Decolonisation happened pretty late in Singapore in 1959, 1963 and finally in 1965. A question which could be asked is whether Singapore with its deep…