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• Perspective

  An ideological adversary

  V Balachandran investigates the ground realities of the Naxalite movement in the country. He looks at their past, and provides examples of how the issue might be tackled at a grass-roots level.

  V Balachandran
• Perspective

  Hope is the antidote to Naxalism

  Raj Cherubal suggests solutions to the issue at the level of local governance.

  Raj Cherubal
• Perspective

  Why trying to buy surrender will not work

  While the schemes speak of getting the Naxalites to surrender, the only surrendering that is being done is by the government. Financial incentives for surrender will result in an increase in violence.

  Atanu Dey
• In Depth

  Winning the counter-insurgency endgame

  India must raise a new agency to ‘fight’ the last stage of counter-insurgency.

  Sushant K Singh & Nitin Pai
• Roundup

  Enough austerity. How about some consumerism?

  Rohit Pradhan outlines the problem with the UPA government’s ‘austerity drive’

  Rohit Pradhan

Table of contents

• Perspective

  An ideological adversary

  V Balachandran investigates the ground realities of the Naxalite movement in the country. He looks at their past, and provides examples of how the issue might be tackled at a grass-roots level.

  V Balachandran
• Perspective

  Hope is the antidote to Naxalism

  Raj Cherubal suggests solutions to the issue at the level of local governance.

  Raj Cherubal
• Perspective

  Why trying to buy surrender will not work

  While the schemes speak of getting the Naxalites to surrender, the only surrendering that is being done is by the government. Financial incentives for surrender will result in an increase in violence.

  Atanu Dey
• Perspective

  Money and friends

  Ankur Kumar traces the Naxalites’ linkages to crime and other armed insurgent groups

  Ankur Kumar
• In Depth

  Winning the counter-insurgency endgame

  India must raise a new agency to ‘fight’ the last stage of counter-insurgency.

  Sushant K Singh & Nitin Pai
• In Brief

  Where our MPs stand

  Voting records of MPs rarely form the subject of public discourse in India. A key reason for this missing analysis is the absence of voting records. Most votes in Parliament are conducted by voice votes.

  M R Madhavan
• Roundup

  The Afghanistan conundrum

  The road to achieving India’s objectives in Afghanistan lies, unfortunately, through Washington

  Dhruva Jaishankar
• Roundup

  Enough austerity. How about some consumerism?

  Rohit Pradhan outlines the problem with the UPA government’s ‘austerity drive’

  Rohit Pradhan
• In Brief

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  Nukes and neighbours
  Rory Medcalf, director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy focuses on the complications  in North Asia in the wake of a renewed push by Washington towards nuclear disarmament. In an article “Wicked weapons North Asia’s nuclear tangle”, the author provides the background of the intersecting interests of North Asian powers such as [...]

  Ravi Gopalan
• Book Review

  Partners and their naturalness

  Dhruva Jaishankar reviews India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership by Teresita C. Schaffer (CSIS, 264 pages, 2009) and finds it to be a balanced and even-handed account of India-US relations

  Dhruva Jaishankar

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