In the wake of cross-border terrorist attacks in Pahalgam, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting alleged terrorist camps across the Line of Control. In the age of terror attacks, how do we understand the doctrine of self-defence?

Is Indian state practice leveraging international law and helping it evolve in the right direction?

Or will India become a Global South country endorsing the “unwilling or unable” doctrine because it is in India’s current interest to do so?

In the first episode of season five, Dr. Arghya Sengupta is joined by Professor Srinivas Burra, whose work specialises in Third World Approaches to International Law, to unpack this legal dilemma.