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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: India’s Hardest Choices in 2026 | Abhijit Chavda
Description: India is entering a decade where its biggest challenges will not come from visible enemies alone — but from the choices it makes under pressure in a rapidly fragmenting world order.
In this wide-ranging and rigorous conversation, Abhijit Chavda joins Bharatvaarta to examine the hard geopolitical decisions India faces today — from energy security and strategic autonomy to American pressure, global trade realignments, and the limits of the so-called “rules-based order.”
We unpack why India’s purchase of Russian energy is not just an economic decision but a sovereignty test, how sanctions and tariffs are used as tools of control, and why Wester...