president ir 2_210x140 Courtesy: PresidentIR
2 August 2010

Reassessing the Iranian nuclear threat

The leaders of Turkey and Brazil recently voted against sanctioning Iran, concluding that Iran's leaders do not intend to violate their most important Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation. India, as a member of NAM, should also concede.

A lot more than a border Courtesy:
1 August 2010

A lot more than a border

A conversation on the role of the media in India-China relations with Pallavi Aiyar, author of Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China

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1 August 2010

From post-war to post-conflict

Sri Lanka’s political trajectory is worrisome – it is assumed that economic development will blunt political aspirations and grievances. Civil and political rights are at best considered irrelevant.

china implications Courtesy: Zimbio
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.

GH_210x140 Courtesy:
27 July 2010

Burma leader expects silence from India visit

Weary of championing Myanmar’s democratic movement, India welcomes its top general Than Shwe in July 2010 and even allows him to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial in New Delhi

Naxalite Rage_210x140 Courtesy: Naxaliterage
17 July 2010

India’s demographic tsunami

How India's "demographic dividend" can turn into a disaster in two parts: one rooted in Leftwing extremism and the other in the churn of Northeast India.

rocket eco Courtesy: ISRO
16 July 2010

Rocket economics, not science

Rocket science hasn’t gone very far, but rocket economics just made the leap. India needs to get into that game fast or risk losing a unique opportunity

Not unpopular in China Courtesy: Zimbio
1 July 2010

Not unpopular in China

The Chinese people might not share their government’s bellicosity towards India. The authoritarian leadership in Beijing may be out of step with domestic opinion when it beats the India drum.