What does Brexit mean for India? As a former British colony, the country enjoys particularly close economic, trade, political and cultural ties to the United Kingdom. India and South Asia Program Affiliate, Ronak Desai, examines how the relationship could be altered by the British exit from the European Union and possible outcomes.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled to Washington last week, making his fourth trip to the United States since taking office just two years ago. India and South Asia Program Fellow, Ronak Desai examines the strategic approach to India's relations with the United States.

Ronak D. Desai is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Belfer Center's India and South Asia Program at Harvard University. He examines here recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2010 raised fresh concerns that yet another crisis may be on the horizon for US-India relations.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced earlier this month that he has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint session of Congress on June 8. This will be the Indian leader’s fourth trip to the United States in two years. Although the invitation is a potent reminder of the robust ties between the Washington and New Delhi, its real significance lies elsewhere: it is the final step in Prime Minister Modi’s political rehabilitation in the United States.

The link between Bollywood and Indian organized crime is as old as India itself, writes author Ronak Desai. The film industry’s intimate relationship with the Indian underworld is considered one of the country’s worst kept secrets whose origins can be traced to a government regulation that rendered the cinema industry ineligible for legitimate forms of financing.

Ronak Desai examines how India remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world, according to a recent report by prominent watchdog group, Transparency International.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has certified Tehran’s compliance with the terms of a nuclear accord the United States, Iran and other world powers reached in April 2015. The historic agreement is aimed at curtailing Iran’s controversial nuclear program, and paves the way for longstanding sanctions against Tehran to be lifted. Sanctions targeting Iran, and particularly its lucrative energy sector, have crippled the country economically and isolated it diplomatically.

Ronak Desai examines what the lifting of Iran sanctions mean for India.

In this Forbes (Asia) piece, author Ronak Desai examines what the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement means for India. Overall, he writes, the Iran deal is good news for New Delhi. The extent to which India is able to leverage and capture the potential economic and strategic opportunities created by the accord will depend largely on whether Tehran is perceived to be complying with the nuclear agreement moving forward. Either way, India is one of the most significant, albeit unexpected, beneficiaries of the pact so far.

For decades, Latin America has been conspicuously absent from New Delhi’s foreign policy calculus. Signs are emerging, however, that Latin America is becoming increasingly important to India, particularly in the economic arena. Although it is unclear how far and deep that cooperation will proceed, India-Latin American relations are on an upswing. The two are poised to embark on a stronger, long overdue partnership.

In 2014, Narendra Modi was sworn-in as India’s new prime minister. He and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept into power following their crushing electoral victory over the incumbent Congress Party-led government. Mr. Modi campaigned on a message of bringing wholesale change to the world’s largest democracy and improving the lives of its 1.3 billion citizens. The message resonated with the country’s immense electorate, which conferred upon him an unprecedented mandate to deliver on his promises. Raising expectations both at home and abroad, Mr. Modi confidently declared achhe din, or good days, were on the horizon.

This article, one year later, asks whether the prime minister’s assured rhetoric matches his record so far. In this piece, Ronak Desai gives us a brief report card of Mr. Modi’s progress at the year marker.