Uttam Sinha’s Article ‘The Brahmaputra Paradigm: balancing Hegemony and Himalayan Fragility’ Published in India’s World

May 11, 2026

Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Uttam Sinha’s article ‘The Brahmaputra Paradigm: balancing Hegemony and Himalayan Fragility’ was published in India’s World, Vol. 2 (5), May 2026.

Flowing across borders and fault lines, the Brahmaputra is fast becoming a site of strategic contestation. China’s planned super dam in Tibet promises clean energy, but raises deeper questions about control, risk, and downstream vulnerability. As infrastructure reshapes both hydrology and geopolitics, one question lingers: Is this development, or dominance by design?, writes Dr Sinha.

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