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11 October 2010

Obama’s Focus on South Asia

A report on Stephen Cohen a key South Asia expert‘s lecture titled “Obama‘s Foreign Policy: Focus on South Asia” at Nehru Centre in Mumbai on October 7, 2010

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7 October 2010

Environmental diplomacy

The Sundarbans, one of world’s most endangered eco-systems, sits on the sensitive border between India and Bangladesh, and the issues that surround it have the potential to either advance or regress the relationship between the two neighbours

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27 September 2010

‘Does India have a Grand Strategy?’

A report on former US Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill‘s lecture titled “Does India have a Grand Strategy?” at a meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Aspen Institute in Mumbai on September 27, 2010.

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22 September 2010

Does Obama mean business with India?

President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to India needs a “transformational” moment, a clincher that will encapsulate both the growing bilateral relations and their future potential.

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6 September 2010

Kashmir: The inconvenient truth

Today, Kashmir is very much part of the cauldron that is "Af-Pak", the storm that is raging across the Pashtun belt in Pakistan and Afghanistan. As in Af-Pak, the base for the jihad that is being waged in Kashmir mainly comprises a small fringe of a single community – the Valley Sunnis.

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30 July 2010

Rising China: Implications for India

China has now clearly emerged as a major world power and India needs to seriously think about how it will engage its neighbour over the twenty-first century. The future of the Sino-Indian relationship will be both competitive and collaborative as the same time.