Muizzu’s Pakistan visit signals Islamabad’s renewed Indian Ocean ambitions and Malé’s diplomatic diversification, presenting India with the challenge of safeguarding its regional interests through sustained engagement.

India’s claim to permanent membership of the UN Security Council reflects wider concerns about the Council’s representativeness and legitimacy. As a founding member, India has contributed to UN peacekeeping missions, disarmament efforts and multilateral cooperation.

A civilisation that names power itself in the feminine must ask why it still so often imagines its women as fragile.