Kanchi Gupta

Kanchi Gupta is a Junior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India. She leads the West Asia Programme at ORF.

“Expressing concern”: India’s balancing act on Gaza

India has moderated its position on the Israel-Palestine conflict over time, exchanging statements of condemnation for those “expressing concern”. But behind India’s strategic balancing act there also lies a precise domestic calculus.

By Kanchi Gupta

/ 27 Aug 2014

Saudi Arabia-Iran: resilient animosity?

Cautious conciliatory overtures between Riyadh and Tehran indicate that the realities of the regional power balance might outweigh long-standing hostilities.

By Kanchi Gupta

/ 2 Jun 2014

Saudi Arabia-Iran: resilient animosity?

Cautious conciliatory overtures between Riyadh and Tehran indicate that the realities of the regional power balance might outweigh long-standing hostilities.

By Kanchi Gupta

/ 2 Jun 2014