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‘Defining Hindutva’, authored by Amb O P Gupta, was released at the VIF on February 24, 2014 by Dr Mohan Rao Bhagwat, Sarsanghchalak, RSS in the presence of Ajit Doval, Director, VIF and Santosh Taneja, Coordinator, Sankalp. Listing out the ma....

February 25, 2014 National Security and Strategic Studies , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Book Discussions , Defining Hindutva , Mohan Rao Bhagwat , Anti-minority , Anti-Muslim

Interaction with Professor Michael Wesley of Australian National University

At an interaction with the VIF faculty on February 18, 2014, Professor Michael Wesley from Australia spoke on a range of topics including Australia’s foreign policy towards Asia and South Asia, changing power dynamics in Asia and Australian perspec....

February 24, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Australia , Asia-Pacific , Indo-Australian relations

Restoring Rule of Law is the Need of the Hour

Dr M N Buch (late)

In all the recent cases pertaining to high level corruption, whether be it the 2 G Spectrum allocation, the Commonwealth Games, the allocation of coal blocks, the appointment of a member of the Railway Board, etc., one common theme has been that deci....

February 24, 2014 Governance and Political Studies

Management of National Security: Agenda for the New Government

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

The performance of the outgoing UPA-II government in managing India’s multiple external and internal security threats and challenges was often sub-optimal and given to knee jerk reactions. For example, the management of border violations on the Lin....

February 24, 2014 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence

Maoist Rebellion : Ground Realities

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee

Ground Situation The end-of-year reports emanating from various Home Departments of the States affected by the Maoist rebellion indicates that the downtrend in violence, as seen during the preceding year, continues. Even if marred by the am....

February 20, 2014 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies

Release of India Uninc

India Uninc, authored by noted economist Prof R Vaidyanathan, was released by former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, former Union Minister Dr Subramanian Swamy and Ajit Doval, Director, VIF at a function at the Foundation’s auditorium on February....

February 18, 2014 Governance and Political Studies , Book Discussions , India Uninc

Strategic Trends in Asia-Pacific and its Implications for India

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Introduction Events that are taking place in Asia-Pacific are a sub set of what is happening in Asia in particular and at the global level in general. While there has been an on-going shift of economic power to Asia, it is also quite appar....

February 17, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , India , Asia-Pacific , Strategic Trends in Asia-Pacific

Interaction with UK, MOD Team on Global Strategic Trends and Implications

A British team from Development of Concepts and Doctrine Centre of UK Ministry of Defence led by Brig. Matt Holmes made a presentation on ‘Global Strategic Trends: Setting the Strategic Context for Defence and Security’ and interacted with the VI....

February 15, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , radicalization , UK , Global Strategic Trends , National Intelligence Council

Deconstructing the AAP Phenomenon

Dr M N Buch (late)

“Never start a paper with the first person singular” was the advice that my English teacher gave me in the first standard in my school in Lahore, St. Anthony’s High School. On 10^th February 2014, Barkha Dutt interviewed Delhi Chief ....

February 15, 2014 Governance and Political Studies

US Reach Out to Modi: Political Insult Should Not be Overlooked

Amb Kanwal Sibal

US diplomacy is a cynical mixture of principle and expediency. The world’s foremost power needs to project internationally that its policies are based on certain high principles so that its global hegemony is not seen as resting on raw power alone ....

February 13, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , US