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Criminal mistake
Last week, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram released Crime In India-2010, a report by the (NCRB) which compiles and analyses crime statistics in India for the...
Time to get started
While we are living in a moment of extraordinary change across the globe, little has been said of India, and of how these changes may affect us. Much of our attention...
Pareto
What if Swiss National Bank (SNB) has negative equity? SNB shocked markets by deciding to peg its currency against Euro. SNB is buying foreign currency to defend...
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Analysis of China’s cyber warfare capabilities DESMOND BALL of the Strategic and Defence Studies Center at the Australian National University at Canberra analyzes...
Turning Right
In the Dutch general elections of June 2010, the Party for Freedom (PVV) won 15.5 percent of the overall vote, 24 seats out of 150 in the house of representatives...
Missed opportunities
It’s hard to find a happy diplomat at the United Nations Security Council these days. Western officials grumble about the difficulty of negotiating with India,...
The poverty numbers
There has been much outrage in the press and in the news channels about the figure of Rs. 26 per day – the level of consumption that defines a person as poor...
Open up, India
For a long time in post-independent India, the political and intellectual discourse was dominated by the fear of the ‘outsiders’—an euphemism for the economically...
The memoir of an unknown Indian soldier
What I present to you is two stories. One is of a simple Indian soldier from a village near Mangalore, one who, according to his brother Louis, “never got...
A Jihad for all Seasons
For ten years, the spectacular attack on 9/11 meant that al Qaida represented the face of the Islamist global insurgency in the popular imagination. Occasional videotapes...
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