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Commentary: Japan’s Challenges and Indo-Japanese Connection - Perspectives for 2018

In the new year, Japan under Shinzo Abe faces many challenges on the foreign policy front. Some of these are perennial problems and others are relatively new. Among the continuing challenges is the threat of North Korea and its ballistic missile a....

February 05, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Commentary , Japan’s foreign policy , Indo-Japan-ASEAN relations

VIMARSHA: ‘Sister Nivedita’s Thought on Nationalism, Nationhood, Education and its Relevance in Contemporary Times’

Talk by Pravrajika Divyanandaprana, Monastic Member of Ramakrishna Sarada Mission and Principal, Nivedita Vidyamandir, New Delhi Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF, welcomed the speaker and introduced the theme. He highlighted that in today’s world....

February 05, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Vimarsha , nationalism , Sister Nivedita , Education , Nationhood

Commentary: From Football Icon to Liberia President - Can George Weah Lead Liberia?

Dr Neha Sinha Commentary

Liberia is a country in West Africa which is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast with an area of 111,369 square kilometers and population of approximately 4.6 million people. It has a republic system of government where the president is ....

January 31, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Commentary , Liberia President , Liberia , West Africa , Sierra Leone , Ivory Coast

Commentary: India’s Missile Arsenal - An Overview

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

On January 18, 2018, the personnel of the Indian armed forces test-fired the 5,000-km-plus Agni-5 Interim Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). The test, conducted from Kalam Island in the Bay of Bengal, achieved all the mission parameters that had been st....

January 31, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Indian missiles , Agni , ICBM

Interaction with ASEAN Journalists

On January 23, 2018, The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi, hosted an interaction with visiting senior journalists from the ten of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Ph....

January 30, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , ASEAN , South China Sea , Indo-Pacific Region , India-ASEAN relations

Tripura and a North-Eastern Perspective

Gautam Sen

India`s north-east is a fascinating geo-political entity in the country`s internal context. The developments in the region, or rather the sub-region, has continued to have ramifications since the first decade of India`s nationhood, both internally an....

January 30, 2018 North-East Insurgency , Governance and Political Studies , Tripura , North-Eastern , National Congress , West Bengal , developments , economy , TTAADC , administrative structure

Containment Again: Will this be the Leitmotif of the ‘Quad’?

Pinaki Bhattacharya

Prologue When George F Kennan wrote his ‘Long Telegram’ from the Moscow embassy in February 1946, soon after the death of the three-term president of the USA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), it was early in arriving. The lege....

January 29, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , Indo-Pacific , Indo-Pacific , Act East , Quad Grouping

Commentary: Electoral Bonds – First Step to Cleanse the Electoral System

Dr A Surya Prakash Commentary

Indians take pride in the fact that they are citizens of the world’s largest democracy and that despite poverty, under-development and fairly high levels of illiteracy, the democratic spirit in well and truly ingrained in the people. While all t....

January 29, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Election spending , electoral bonds

Counsels from the Life of Swami Vivekananda for the Indian Youth

Pravas Kumar Mishra

Swami Vivekananda was a monk who travelled extensively in the most interior parts of India, which inevitably shaped his conscience about the uniqueness of Indian culture, spirituality and civilisation. He could see the greatness of India even at the ....

January 25, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Swami Vivekananda , Indian values , Bharat Mata

Rise of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Kashmir Valley - an Internal Security Perspective

Introduction On January 2, 2016, a group of four to six well trained Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists launched an audacious attack on the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab. In an operation that continued over the next four days, all t....

January 25, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Kashmir Valley , Pathankot Attack , United Jihad Council , Jaish-e-Mohammed