Centering India in Global Futures

As a concept and the world’s largest democracy, India is increasingly becoming an important part of the global landscape. However, navigating India, with its multitudes and diverse outlook to partnerships and alliances, can be complicated.

With changing global scenarios and shifting power centers it is imperative for countries that share common ideologies and value systems to forge stronger ties, both in the traditional foreign and security space but also in other areas of governance, be it climate change or urban development. To this end we engage closely with partners that wish to explore new and innovative mechanisms to bring about closer cooperation on issues outside of the traditional security lens, either within India or with India.

We explore diverse lines of inquiry, which sometimes grow into independent initiatives (such as our work on urban water, gender and foreign policy, and the Indo-Pacific), and sometimes fall into the pipeline for potential future projects with partners, from governments to foundations or private institutions, that share our beliefs and vision.

While exploratory in nature, our themes are grounded by our understanding of areas that have the potential to be truly strategic for global futures. We aim to address the gaps in understanding, knowledge and expertise in these areas that are still considered emerging but will have cascading positive and negative effects on our collective existence.