Hi, I’m Venus Upadhyaya, a journalist who delves into the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region. I started “Indo-Pacific Politics” as an online media outlet to publish my work and the work of other analysts and journalists on the Indo-Pacific region. I was inspired to do this while I was the 2025 Taiwan MOFA Fellow and a visiting scholar at the College of Law and Politics, National Chung Hsing University, in Taichung City.

The fellowship meant spending ten months in Taiwan, the heart of the Indo-Pacific region, and experiencing geopolitics firsthand. I envision this media outlet growing into an insightful space, offering news and analysis, interviews, and in-depth, enterprising writing on the Indo-Pacific region.

I believe it to be the age of the Indo-Pacific, rather than just the “Asian Age” characterized by the rise of India and China—there’s going to be a lot more happening, and a single narrative can’t define it. Thus, this media space manifests growth of a different kind, characterized by enterprise, traditional in-depth writing, and genius, defined by integrity and vision. Be a part of it if you believe in it!

2025 Focus

The Indo-Pacific Politics’ 2025 focus was on understanding Taiwan from an Indian perspective, and that’s why I started serializing conversations under the “Taiwan Interview Series.” In 10 months, I interviewed 35 people in Taiwan, India, and other parts of the world and wrote columns and articles on Taiwan and India. I also invited guest columnists for contributions on topics I couldn’t undertake myself. The result was 110+ posts in 9 months with over 7000 readership for long-form, serious content without any marketing budget or marketing strategy in place. This website is a unique achiever!

2026-27 Focus

In Taiwan, I constantly faced issues linked to cognitive warfare and firsthand realized what it’s like to work, travel, and hold a fellowship in a place with no history of war but with a constant reality of a threat of war. Back in India, I thus feel the need to delve deeper this year into cognitive warfare in the Indo-Pacific region. I’ll again be serializing interviews, articles, and op-eds under this topic.

In addition, I also finished my doctoral fellowship program on “Perspectives on India’s Unorganized Sector” by the end of 2025. Unorganized markets are fascinating—their dynamism is generally overshadowed by their informal nature or the chaotic market scenes, but the reality is they constitute the maximum labor force. In the Indo-Pacific region, with many emerging economies, unorganized markets are dominant. They certainly are an appealing topic for me to report on in 2026-27.