Can India Continue to Rise Without Its Region?

Can India Continue to Rise Without Its Region?

New Delhi can only ignore the neighborhood’s political volatility for so long.

A soldier in camouflage with his back to the camera looks through binoculars onto houses set on a hill. October 20, 2025, 12:01 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

There has been an eerie similarity to recent developments in South Asia. The Generation Z-led protest movement that ousted Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in Nepal in September echoes the so-called monsoon revolution in Bangladesh in August last year, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was removed from power, as well as the 2022 aragalaya (struggle) in Sri Lanka that unseated then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The frequency of these “people-power” movements speaks to several structural challe