Kashmir Series - The Dewans of Dogra Kingdom

The Powerful Dewans of Dogra Kingdom, Chancing Upon a Heritage and Discovering Answers to Historic Questions on Kashmir

In 2017 I received an email from a leadership trainer and reformer of school ecosystems. My good friend whom I also consider a mentor, Sandeep Dutt ji was told about...

Family Migration Stories in the Indus Basin, Kashmir’s Customary Laws - Venus Upadhayaya

Family Migration Stories in the Indus Basin, Kashmir’s Customary Laws and a Mysterious Murder

As a teen I once took a lifetime journey, trekking down from my picturesque village, through thick jungles to a river and then uphill to another village to meet children...

Competition for Sanskrit Manuscripts front cover

Family Memoirs, Civilisational Heritage, and Great Game Competition for Sanskrit Manuscripts

This essay in the series from Kashmir to Haridwar is about Sanskrit and cross-civilisation routes in the Northern Frontiers of the Indian sub-continent or Sanskrit in the Indus river basin....

Dogras and Great Games

19th Century Great Games and Indomitable Dogra Warriors

Great Games were a series of geo-political activities between the Russian Empire and the British Empire from 1838 to 1907. They still continue today, albeit with different players. In the...

Open Letter to Prime Minsiters of the UK and India to express concern on religious freedom in Karnataka

Open letter to the Prime Minister regarding religious freedom in India

To: The honourable Prime Ministers of the UK and India We write to you today as members and representatives of Indian diaspora civil society organisations and, most importantly as British...

UK India Energy Report 2021

UK-India Energy Collaborations report

Bridge India is proud to introduce this review of UK-India energy opportunities. Its launch is timely, as the UK will be hosting the COP-26 meeting in Glasgow in November 2021....

Chris Wright, the chairman of Faradion, with the sodium-ion electric car battery developed by the company. Photograph Adrian Sherratt

The Future of Clean Transportation: Sodium-ion Batteries

The lithium-ion battery is the highest energy density battery technology currently in existence commercially. It is no surprise that for electric vehicle (eV) applications, it is the go-to battery around...

Are electric vehicles about to take off in India?

In partnership with: India turns to electric vehicles despite lacking both technology and minerals to produce them, risking the spectre of Chinese domination in the process. In April, Reuters reported that automakers...

Narendra Modi Bilateral Investment Treaties

UK can help PM Modi deliver in India

The recent election in India was seen as a referendum on the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his party, the BJP. Although he had struggled to deliver on promises...

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

– Mahatma Gandhi