Michael Kugelman is the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly South Asia Brief. He is the director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington.
Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin are seen from the chest upward as they stand near each other in front of a yellow wall. Each man has one hand raised to gesture as they lean close to speak to each other.
A police officer adjusts the crime scene barricade tape at the blast site a day after a suicide attack on a van near the Confucius Institute in Karachi, Pakistan.
Pro-Khalistan activists stage a demonstration demanding justice for Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, on Sept. 29, 2023.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sits on a stage decorated with flowers alongside a row of seated cabinet ministers. Modi's hands are raised as he claps. Greenery is visible beyond the stage.
A span of dozens of folding seats of a stadium are seen beneath a mostly clear blue sky. The camera is tilted upward, showing the back wall of the stadium and the roof that hangs over the highest seats.
Three Pakistani farm workers stand in a wheat field, feeding piles of cut wheat into a mechanical thresher. One of the workers is resting on a bag of threshed wheat, preparing another empty bag. The sky overhead is blue and clear, and a ridge of trees is visible far in the distance.
Voters wait to cast their ballots outside a polling station during the third phase of voting for the India's general election in Sadashivapura village in Karnataka, India.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi walks down a flight of steps as he exits his plane upon arriving in Sri Lanka. Raisi is a man in his 60s with a white beard and glasses. He wears a black turban and a sheer black robe over an off-white shirt. The side of the plane is white, with stripes in the red and green of the Iranian flag.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds up a placard of a lotus, the symbol of the Bharatiya Janata Party, during a campaign road show in Chennai, India.
