Col R Hariharan in Sri Lanka Strategic Perspectives September 2026 seeks to outline how President AK Dissanayaka’s National People’s Power (NPP) is attempting to clean the Augean Stables of corruption of the Rajapaksa family amongst other notable events.

Maldives the beautiful atoll nation holds a critical strategic maritime location in the Indian Ocean region and thus enjoys much attention in the region, yet high politics in Male and debt profligacy creates a spiral of uncertainities.

Col R Hariharan in Sri Lanka Strategic Perspectives, August 2026 touches upon the sensitive issue of enforced disappearances and the callousness with which Colombo has handled the cases despite the large numbers involved. Not just Sri Lanka enforced disappearances are a critical rights issue in South Asia

The challenge for South Asian countries is to make democracy work in the true sense – autonomous institutions from the legislature to the judiciary and the election commission, a free media, accountability, elimination of corruption and de-elitism.

Col R Hariharan in Sri Lanka Strategic Perspectives for July 2026 outlines how Sri Lanka is undertaking transition from a manpower oriented force to a technology efficient one by 2030, thereby hoping to achieve more bang for buck.

In Sri Lanka Strategic Perspectives, June 2026, Col R Hariharan how the NPP Government led by AKD is managing corruption, the challenges and recommends the way ahead.

The review of USINDOPACOM back to the original USPACOM is more than a change in name. This has multiple implications for China, Taiwan India and US allies as South Korea, Japan and Australia as well as South East Asia. Here is a brief analysis of the level of impact and possible implications

Nishqa Devadiga reviews the UNDP report that maps the channels through which a geopolitical shock far from the region mainly war in the Middle East since February 2026 is quietly eroding livelihood, food security, employment and public budgets across one of the world's most economically diverse regions.

Beyond wars, militancy, terrorism, drug and people running, law and order, illegal migration, maritime crime and so on, climate change will remain the most persistent and long term challenge for South Asia, here is a perspective.

Col R Hariharan in Sri Lanka Perspectives April 2026 outlines how the AKD government is managing one of the gravest economic and energy crisis faxed by the Island Nation eve as it is on the path of fiscal recovery.