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Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
Dr. Madhumita Srivastava Balaji, a student of political science is an alumna of the Benaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. She is a P.hd in Political Science and the subject of her dissertation has been International Dimensions of Ethnic Conflicts: A Case Study of Kashmir and Northern Ireland, reviewed by the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research, New Delhi and published under the publication grant of ICSSR in 1999-2000.

Dr. Madhumita Srivastava Balaji, a student of political science is an alumna of the Benaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. She is a P.hd in Political Science and the subject of her dissertation has been International Dimensions of Ethnic Conflicts: A Case Study of Kashmir and Northern Ireland, reviewed by the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research, New Delhi and published under the publication grant of ICSSR in 1999-2000.

Contributions 
Commentary: Bangladesh - The Khaleda Zia Verdict and its Political Implications
March 01, 2018 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
In a judicial verdict of unprecedented political import, on February 8, 2018, a Special Court in Bangladesh sentenced the former Prime Minister and leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Begum Khaleda Zia, to a five-year jail term, in a case o...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, Commentary, Khaleda Zia’s jail term, Bangladesh elections, Zia Verdict
Nepal’s Experiment with Democracy - A Game of Shifting Alliances
October 23, 2017 RNP Singh
As is well known to political and strategic analysts dealing with Nepal, the only constant in the country’s recent political history has been the game of alliances and re-alliances, played by the political parties with a view to retaining power. In...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, India, Nepal elections, Nepal politics, Prime Minister Deuba, Nepali Congress
प्रधानमंत्री देउबा की भारत यात्रा – समीक्षा
September 26, 2017 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
जिस समय डोकलम में भारत-चीन विवाद अपने चरम पर था, ठीक उसी समय 23 से 27 अगस्त के बीच नेपाल के प्रधानमंत�...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, Hindi, Nepal, modi, Prime Minister Deuba, नेपाल- भारत प्रतिबद्धता, प्रधानमंत्री देउबा, भारत यात्रा, India Visit
Prime Minister Deuba’s Visit to India-An Assessment
September 14, 2017 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
Right in the midst of the then raging Sino-Indian stand-off at Doklam, the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba paid a five day state visit to India from August 23-27, 2017; his first foreign trip after assuming the charge in May 2017. It was P...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, Nepal, Deuba’s visit
Nepal-Holds First Local Level Elections in 20 Years
July 31, 2017 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
Nepal appears jubilant at the success of the completion of the local level elections. The fervor seems to be nationwide primarily because elections were held after two decades. The country definitely views this as a landmark development in its quest...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, Nepal, Constitution, elections, India-Nepal, Nepal China
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VIF Papers 
Nepal’s March Towards Constitutional Democracy
August 13, 2018 C D Sahay
… India-Nepal relations are a vast confluence of socio political and economic engagements …evolved from age-old ties and permeate our socio-cultural aspects …multi-faceted and multi-dimensional approach is required on both sides to study and an...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Nepal, India-Nepal relations
India- Bangladesh Relations: An Enduring Economic Partnership
January 22, 2016 Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji
India and Bangladesh share a long history of enduring economic partnership and bi-lateral development. The relationship between the two countries has been one based on mutual trust and cooperation. Our multi-faceted economic relations encompass trad...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, India- Bangladesh Relations, Economic Partnership
VIF Briefs 
Rising Trend of Religious Radicalization in Bangladesh
October 27, 2016 Amb Tariq Karim
Bangladesh, world's third largest Muslim majority nation has, right from its independence, cherished and followed the cardinal democratic values of freedom, equality, justice and religious tolerance. These, in a major way, also played a pivotal role ...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, Terrorism, radicalization, Muslim majority
BBIN: Paradigm Change in South Asia
May 10, 2016 Amb Tariq Karim
Introduction: In a bid to emulate the European Economic Cooperation (EEC, later EC and then EU), and the promise of success in the ASEAN models, South Asian countries got together in December 1985 to form their own South Asian Associatio...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, BBIN, South Asia, SAARC, European Economic Cooperation
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