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Issue No.35 | February 2010
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- Perspective
The urbanisation imperative
Atanu Dey on why India needs liveable, sustainable and well-managed cities
- Perspective
Renewing the Mumbai project
Percy Mistry explains why it is time to revive the plan to develop the city into an international financial metropolis
- Perspective
Mumbai SAR, International Capital Market Centre
Defining India’s role in the eastward shift of the world’s intellectual capital
- Perspective
An appropriate place to project soft power
Concluding part of the interview with Shashi Tharoor, where he talks about India’s engagement with the United Nations
- Infographic
Neighbourhood Watch
An infographic about the United Nations Peace Keeping Operations
Full Contents
- Perspective
The urbanisation imperative
Atanu Dey on why India needs liveable, sustainable and well-managed cities
- Perspective
Renewing the Mumbai project
Percy Mistry explains why it is time to revive the plan to develop the city into an international financial metropolis
- Perspective
Mumbai SAR, International Capital Market Centre
Defining India’s role in the eastward shift of the world’s intellectual capital
- Perspective
An appropriate place to project soft power
Concluding part of the interview with Shashi Tharoor, where he talks about India’s engagement with the United Nations
- Perspective
Insurgency at sea: the currency of carriers
India has been exceedingly slow with diplomatic arrangements, raising questions as to how a task force would be supplied if deployed to protect sea-lanes.
- Perspective
Making defence expenditure more effective
The urgent need to professionalise long term defence planning and budgeting
- Perspective
An embrace without trust
The downward spiral in US-Pakistan intelligence relations
- Perspective
Understanding the Baloch insurgency
It is unlikely that the United States wants to break Pakistan up but might like to keep the option open.
- Infographic
Neighbourhood Watch
An infographic about the United Nations Peace Keeping Operations
- Perspective
Filter
Drone strikes are popular
FARHAT TAJ of the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Research of the University of Oslo challenges Pakistani and US media reports about the civilian casualties in the drone attacks in Waziristan claiming that those estimates were fabricated by the pro-Taliban and pro Al-Qaeda elements in Pakistan as part of their propaganda against [...]
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Issue No.34 | January 2010
Afghanistan
Why India must send troops to Afghanistan
The proposal to deploy Indian troops in Afghanistan is based on the simple logic of force fungibility. As the nuclear factor makes it unfeasible for Indian troops to directly attack Pakistan’s military-jihadi complex, India should ensure that US troops do so. The US ‘surge’ in Af-Pak is a strategic opportunity for India.
Afghanistan
Giving Kabul a leg up
India must invest in training Afghan national security forces. The answer to the United States’ resource constraints in Afghanistan lies in India. New Delhi must respond positively to a US request for training and equipping the ANA.
foreign affairs
Not unpopular in China
The Chinese people might not share their government’s bellicosity towards India. The authoritarian leadership in Beijing may be out of step with domestic opinion when it beats the India drum.
Issue No.33 | December 2009
Perspective
Taking the Heat
Dhruva Jaishankar looks at where India stands on climate change. Given the difficulties the international level, India might not even be required to play a major role at Copenhagen, either as facilitator or as veto-wielder. India’s red line therefore appears to hover somewhere close to per capita emission standards.
Foreign Policy
The capacity to engage
In the first of a two-part interview, Shashi Tharoor and Nitin Pai discuss Africa, strengthening the foreign service and changing foreign policy planning.
Europe
Battling strategic irrelevance
European leaders should beware exiting Afghanistan. They have already staked their credibility there, and the balance of power in Asia is very uncertain.
Issue No.32 | November 2009
Editorial
Why Pragati
Transcending ideological pigeonholes, united in determination to see a better future for our nation.
Essay
Kind words and guns
Diplomacy can succeed only when it is backed by a credible military option.
Essay
Hope is the antidote to Naxalism
Scant attention is paid to good governance at the local level.