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India’s Role in Emerging Paradigm: A talk with Ma. P. Parameshwaranji, President of Vivekananda Kendra

Salient excerpts of the speech by Ma. P. Parameshwaranji, President of Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari at Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi on 25th October 2010. Paradigm is among those alien idioms which enter our ....

May 09, 2011 Vimarsh , Historical and Civilisational Studies , India’s Role in Emerging Paradigm , Kanyakumari
The Rose of Tora Bora
Amb Kanwal Sibal

International terrorism will not be wiped out with Osama bin Laden, who had long ceased to be its driving force What is more important than Osama bin Laden’s elimination is the place where he was hiding. No remote mountain fastness concea....

May 05, 2011 Terrorism
New Leadership and Challenges for Tibetans-in-Exile
Debasish Chaudhuri

Tibetan society did not enter into transformational stage until it had faced brutal forces of the communist China in 1950 which led to the so-called revolutionary transformation of the subjugated community. The real transformation of the traditional ....

May 05, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Attrition Abbottabad
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Osama bin Laden’s killing may have closed one chapter, but the list of Af-Pak issues is long. The US has to depend on Pakistan, but question its reliability. However emotionally satisfying for many the slaughter of Osama bin Laden, it sho....

May 04, 2011 Terrorism
Be Pragmatic About N-Power
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Nuclear power producers have always had anxiety that a major nuclear accident anywhere in the world will deliver a crippling blow to the industry as a whole. Because of this collective interest, nuclear safety has always received pressing attention, ....

April 26, 2011 Indo-Pacific
With Due Respect - India has every right to disagree with the West on Libya
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Mass uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have evicted autocrats ruling for two or three decades. Libya, sandwiched between these countries and under a dictator’s yoke for over four decades, could hardly have escaped unscathed. If Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali....

April 21, 2011 Africa
The Necessity of Reinventing a Shared Cultural Past–India and Southeast Asia
Dr Anirban Ganguly

[The story of India’s two thousand years old association with the Southeast Asian region remains a unique and unparalleled saga in the history of civilisations. It is a fascinating story that continues to retain its vibrancy and appeal. Indian c....

April 20, 2011 Historical and Civilisational Studies
Mantra for Development is Peace and Security

ITANAGAR, Apr 16: Rapid development will happen only where there is peace and security said Arunachal Pradesh Governor Gen JJ Singh, while inaugurating a two-day national seminar on development and security organized by Vivekananda International Foun....

April 19, 2011 Seminar_57 , National Security and Strategic Studies , Seminars , Vivekananda Kendra , Arunachal Pradesh , VKV Tafragaon
No Reason For India To Align With West On Its Pet Causes
Amb Kanwal Sibal

We should be politically clear-sighted about our supposed “international obligations” as a rising global power. We are accused at times of being “free-loaders” who benefit from the global system without assuming sufficient responsibility for ....

April 14, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy
Analysis of Japan’s Natural Disaster
Dr Vikash Ranjan

The triple crisis which hit Japan on March 11 and subsequently, has led to a trail of devastation in its wake. Weeks after the crisis the death toll has crossed 12,000 counts, with 15,500 people still missing, and 4,50,000 people rendered homeless. T....

April 12, 2011 Indo-Pacific
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