Roundtable
The Takshashila Roundtable Conclave programme aims to create a shared understanding of India’s national interests that can serve as the intellectual bases...
Towards a new non-proliferation regime
Barack Obama visited India and signed a joint statement with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The joint statement mirrored the emerging multi-dimensional...
The raja-mandala is global
At a seminar earlier this year, a participant asked if the numerous crises in India’s immediate neighbourhood will limit India’s growth. This was some time after...
What ails military modernisation?
Arming Without Aiming The pithy title says it all. It was a book waiting to be written for many years now. India’s military modernisation, or rather the lack of...
Co-operating for power
Co-operation is the watchword of world’s military powers. Everything from the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global financial meltdown, and even Wikileaks...
Tackling the pirate menace
Long considered outdated, piracy has returned in the twenty-first century to haunt the Indian Ocean. In many ways, little has changed since the times of Henry Every...
An imagined sea
The Mediterranean Sea has a privileged position in western history, from European antiquity down to the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Scholars of diverse persuasions—embracing...
In Parliament
Could the Parliament’s financial oversight mechanisms have prevented the 2G scam? The Winter Session of Parliament was almost entirely washed out as the government...
Pareto
Indian Banks and the crisis VIRAL ACHARYA, ANUKARAN AGARWAL and NIRUPAMA KULKARNI presented an insightful paper (State ownership and systemic risk: Evidence from...
Attention to trafficking
While the illegal immigration of Bangladeshis into India over the last several decades has become a security and economic concern among Indians, the employment of...











