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Dalai Lama enthralls a packed gathering of eminent citizens at VIF auditorium

His Holiness Dalai Lama addressed a packed gathering of diplomats, intellectuals and eminent citizens in the auditorium of the Vivekananda International Foundation on 20 March 2010. In the talk, jointly organised by Vivekananda Internaitonal Foundati....

April 08, 2010 Vimarsh , Neighbourhood Studies , Tibet , Dalai Lama , Tibetean people , India's civilisational heritage
Challenges to India's Internal Security

April 2, 2010 A Memorial Lecture to celebrate the 96th Birth Anniversary of Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw was orgainsed jointly by the Vivekananda International Foundation and Indian Military Review, a defence magazine launched in January 201....

April 07, 2010 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , India's Internal Security , Marshal Manekshaw
Arunachal has world’s largest Shivlingam

Alluding to a prophecy in the Shiv Puran, former Arunachal MP and Congress leader Kiren Rijuju on Saturday said that the world’s largest Shivlingam has been discovered in the state. “The discovery of more than 22 feet tall lingam was made a fe....

March 23, 2010 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Arunachal , Land of Rising Sun , Chinese claim
Climate Change Negotiations : The Challenge for Indian Diplomacy a talk by Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary

(Talk delivered by Shyam Saran, former foreign Secretary and till recently Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Climate Change at VIF on 19 March 2010)

Shri Ajit Doval, Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation, Ambassador Satis....

March 23, 2010 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Shyam Saran
John Negroponte visits VIF

Former US Deputy Secretary of State and Director, National Intelligence, John Negroponte visited Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, to interact with the senior faculty and scholars of VIF and a few seasoned strat....

March 18, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Interaction , John Negroponte
Major Glaciers Receding: Shyam Saran

Shyam Saran, former Special Envoy of the Prime Minister on India-US Nuclear Issues and Climate Change and former Foreign Secretary, says that there is “anecdotal evidence” that major glaciers have been receding. There is no precise data as to ....

March 18, 2010 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Border and Coastal Security , Climate Change
Tectonic Shift in India’s Pak policy
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

The recent CNN-IBN interview of Mr M.K. Narayanan, the nation­al security adviser (NSA), in defence of the government's assertions on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, including the setting up of the anti terrorism mecha­nism, has added to the wides....

March 17, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Intelligence in India’s Internal Security
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

As an instrumentality of the state, a seemingly simple doctrine that security interests of a state are best served when addressed from a position of knowledge dominance is the mother of intelligence. Unfortunately, states often do not act in their....

March 17, 2010 National Security and Strategic Studies
A Strategic Setback for India - Reg. Havana Statement India - Pakistan
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Pakistan’s military leadership may consider Havana statement a dividend for the terror attacks in India

 India has suffered its first strategic setback in the fight against terrorism by certifying that Pakistan is not an aggressor but ....

March 16, 2010 Terrorism , Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , National Security and Strategic Studies
No More Marching Orders
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Many are seeing Friday’s supreme court directive on police reforms as the beginning of an era of good policing. Will it show India’s colonial cop the door?

Concerned that political interference and politicisation of police were eating....

March 16, 2010 National Security and Strategic Studies
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