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Pragati The Indian National Interest Review No 30 | September 2009 Published by The Indian National Interest—an independent community of individuals committed...
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Climate change duality: External vs Domestic strategies Nandan Nilekani argues that India’s future depends on addressing climate change today. In a YaleGlobal...
Parliament in the July-August 2009 session
Synopsis The new parliament had a good start in its first full session: there were fewer interruptions, more time was spent on busi-ness, and importantly, parliament...
Let them come (even sans visa)
Earlier this summer, a woman in Latin America did not get the visa in time to make her trip to India to attend a conference. In itself, this would have been a minor...
Monsoon failure
After a string of five good monsoons, India seems to have once again run out of luck this year. As rain-gods play truant, the government has declared drought in...
Terminate NREGA
The overarching theme of the July 2009 budget has been the UPA government’s emphasis on the social sector schemes—rural employment guarantee, Bharat Nirman,...
Reforming for the poor
“Woh garibi nahi, garibon ko hatana chahte hain” (They want to remove the poor, not poverty). Everything that was happening was evidence of what Gangamma, a...
Sometimes for America, always for itself
Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army and the Wars Within is perhaps one of the most definitive and authoritative attempts at an honest appraisal of the Pakistan Army...
Galvanising international studies
“Today’s world is becoming smaller in many re-spects. Whether it is the international economic crisis, or terrorism or climate change – what happens in one...
Addressing the real problem: climate of poverty
What does the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation think about carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming? “We don’t think about it,” Bill Gates said during...


