Bibhu Prasad Routray

Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray is a Singapore based security analyst and a senior analyst at Wikistrat. He was Deputy Director at India’s National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Government of India. Email: bibhuroutray@gmail.com Twitter: @BibhuRoutray

India's COIN approach and left-wing extremism

The Maoist insurgency once described as the single greatest threat to the Indian state has lowered in intensity. But the success of the government's COIN approach may not deliver a peace, but an entrenchment of the cycle between stalemate and further violence.

By Bibhu Prasad Routray and Shanthie Mariet D'Souza

/ 13 Aug 2012

India's options after Mumbai

Despite all the evidence that investigators claim links the Mumbai attacks to groups and individuals in Pakistan, India's options vis-à-vis its hostile neighbour are severely limited. It has

By Bibhu Prasad Routray

/ 17 Dec 2008