India Roundup

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India Roundup

India Roundup is a monthly brief that delves into significant developments in India, offering analysis of their geoeconomic implications. It unpacks the strategic nuances shaping India’s economic and political landscape, providing critical insights for corporations, and analysts. It is written by Manish Sharma, visiting research fellow at the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) and professor with Hosei University, Tokyo.
Economic Security
India’s Lithography Moment and the European Tilt

May was a month in which India's strategy of widening partnerships produced some results. The signature deliverable was a lithogra

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
Japan-India Cooperation Takes Off

The 15th India-Japan Annual Summit in August 2025 produced an unusually ambitious set of bilateral frameworks: the Economic Securi

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
India’s Semiconductor Moment

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
India’s Rising Gravitational Pull

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
India and EU Sign Mother of All Deals

2026 marked a decisive moment in India’s external economic strategy....(continues below)

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
It’s Now or Never: India’s Ambitious Reform Push

2025 marked a clear inflection point in India’s reform trajectory...(continues below)

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
India – Japan: The Glimpse of a Shared Vision

G20 summit in Johannesburg (21–23 Nov) produced a dense set of bilateral outcomes and group initiatives that matter commercially a

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
India’s Structural Reforms: Opportunities and Risks

In the recent months, India constituted a high-level reform panel to accelerate business-facing structural reforms. Other key deve

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

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Navigating Uncertainty: India’s Quiet Strategic Moves

India’s foreign-policy and economic choreography in the recent weeks has produced a string of muted albeit consequential developme

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

Economic Security
From Threats to Substance: Decoding India-US Relations

Recent developments in Indo-US relations, marked by public threats of steep unilateral tariffs, have introduced a rare geopolitica

Visiting Research Fellow

Manish Sharma

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