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Can India Keep Its Balance in West Asia?

Podcast: Grand Tamasha
Published: May 13, 2026
Duration seconds: 2855
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Summary

For more than a decade, India has steadily deepened its ties with the Gulf while trying to balance competing interests across the region. How is India being impacted by the Iran crisis? And what do these geopolitical shifts mean for India’s West Asia policy? To discuss these and other questions, Milan is joined on the show this week by Kabir Taneja, the Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation’s Middle East office.