February 2010

Issue no. 35

Featured articles

Table of 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 [...]

Masthead

Pragati
The Indian National Interest Review
No 35 | February 2010

Published by The Indian National Interest—an independent community of individuals committed to increasing public awareness and education on strategic affairs, economic policy and governance.

Advisory Panel
Mukul G Asher
Sameer Jain
Amey V Laud
V Anantha Nageswaran
Ram Narayanan
Sameer Wagle

Editors
Nitin Pai
Ravikiran Rao
Sushant K Singh

Editorial Support
Dibyojyoti Haldar
Aruna Urs
Priya Kadam

Acknowledgements
Matti Pohjonen/Objetpetitm (Cover Image)
Ajay Shah
Jacob Joseph Puthenparambil

Neither Pragati nor The Indian National Interest website are affiliated to any political party or platform. The views expressed in this publication are personal opinions of the contributors and not those of their employers or those of Pragati.

© 2010 The Indian National Interest. Some rights reserved.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License. To view a copy of this license, visit Creative Commons or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Pragati accepts letters and unsolicited manuscripts.

Editions

Community Edition: Pragati (ISSN 0973-8460) is available for free download here. This edition may be freely distributed (in its complete form) via both electronic and non-electronic means. You are encouraged to share your copy with your local community.

Print Edition: Quill Media has introduced a print & distribution service to Pragati’s readers. Sign-up at QuillMedia.in

Download

.