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VIF Viewpoint : Pakistan violates Line of Control, decapitation of Indian soldier

The latest incident across the Line of Control (LoC), and the killing and decapitation of an Indian soldier, highlights yet again the challenge that Pakistan poses to our security and diplomacy. Further, this act cannot be discounted as a local incid....

January 09, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Indian Army , Pakistan Army , LoC , inetraction , Indian soldier
Developing India’s Indigenous Defence Technologies: The Case for Inducting Arjun Tanks
Radhakrishna Rao

A well–entrenched and powerful import lobby operating under the shadow of the political establishment in New Delhi has been silently but vigorously pursuing the strategy of nullifying every Indian effort aimed at developing new and innovative techn....

January 08, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence
Systemic Failure or Organ Failure?
Dr M N Buch (late)

The Chambers Twenty-first Dictionary, which is quite an authoritative lexicon, describes ‘system’ in the following words, “A set of inter-connected or inter-related parts forming a complex whole”. The word ‘systemic’ is defined as “refe....

January 08, 2013 Governance and Political Studies
Mollycoddling Miandad is Tantamount to Legitimising Dawood Ibrahim
Sushant Sareen

Even while seething with anger over the news that the close relative of the international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad had been given a visa to visit Delhi to watch the final one-day match between India and Pa....

January 05, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
An Object Lesson in Government Incompetence
Dr M N Buch (late)

When salmon swim against all odds to reach their spawning grounds no obstruction can stop them. The huge number of rape cases now being reported in India reminds me of this annual migration of salmon. Was India free of rape till fairly recently and ....

December 31, 2012 Governance and Political Studies
Still Comrades after all these years
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Russia was the first country with which India established a strategic partnership in 2000 when Vladimir Putin became President and reversed the drift in ties under Boris Yeltsin when Moscow veered westwards and lost interest in its Soviet-era friends....

December 28, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia
Post - 2014 Afghan Security: Hope is not a Strategy
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Gradually but inexorably, Afghanistan is crawling towards anarchy due to its deteriorating security situation. The US-led forces in Afghanistan are on target to complete their drawdown by end-2014. In fact, many members of the US Congress are clamour....

December 28, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Method in The Madness
Amb Kanwal Sibal

If it was wrong to invite Pakistan’s interior minister Rahman Malik to India because he prevaricates on investigations into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and lets Hafiz Saeed make hate speeches against India unchecked, is it right to believe that....

December 27, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Vivekananda: Essence and Significance
Dr Anirban Ganguly

In a few days time Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations shall be launched all over the country. Behind the grandeur and colour of every commemorative celebration lies the deeper truth of the significance of the person....

December 27, 2012 Historical and Civilisational Studies
The Undisputed vote ka Saudagar !
Dr A Surya Prakash

The resounding victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent Gujarat Assembly election has once again reinforced the argument that with good governance and a strong development-oriented agenda, it is possible to buck the anti-incumbency t....

December 27, 2012 Governance and Political Studies
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