Waiting for Godot – Aircraft carriers for India
After a delay of nearly four-five years, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, was finally launched on 12 August in Kochi. The sea trials are expected to begin sometime …
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India’s Development Strategy in Africa: Building Soft Infrastructure
As emerging powers expand their development cooperation as an integral part of their foreign policies, analyses have tended to be very China- centric. This tends to limit the scope of …
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India warns Pakistan, Sharif plays peacenik
Amid mounting tensions and rising political temperature in India over the killing of Indians soldiers in Kashmir, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has struck a placatory note by calling for …
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China’s strategic and economic forays in Bangladesh: Implications for India
Think of Bangladesh in terms of global trade, and it conjures up images of the burgeoning garment industry. Currently, Bangladesh is the second largest apparel exporter in the world, right …
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Testing times: It’s time Pakistan walks the talk
The India-Pakistan ties have come to resemble an entrenched manic depression – albeit there are more episodes of lows than highs in this fraught relationship. There is also an intriguingly …
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India hopes for upswing in Iran relations, deploys Ansari power
Amid speculation of a possible Iran-West rapprochement under the new dispensation in Tehran, India has signalled its intention to revitalise bilateral ties by sending Vice-President Hamid Ansari for the swearing-in …
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Knowledge is Power: It’s time to step up Indian Ocean dialogue
The geopolitics of the Indian Ocean is in a flux. It is essential for us to appreciate accurately the contours of India’s worldview and role of the Indian Ocean in …
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Terror targets India in Afghanistan, again; India says will go on
The suicide attack explosion targeting the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has once again highlighted the perennial threat to India’s interests in Afghanistan, which continue to …
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Telangana: The politics and economics of India’s 29th state
After nearly 60 years of struggle, marked by two major agitations which saw an immolation in 2010 and the death of over 1000 people, the backward and impoverished region of …
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The Poverty of Discourse: Food for Thought
The current discourse on poverty in India, triggered by a report of the Planning Commission last week claiming that the official poverty headcount ratio had come down from 37 per …
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