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The Ayodhya debate was unnecessary a talk by Shri. Koenraad Elst

The Ayodhya debate was unnecessary: Koenraad Elst The talk ‘Ayodhya Verdict : How the History will judge it?’ was delivered by Shri Koenraad Elst, the noted indologist and historian, at Vivekananda International Foundation on 14th Decem....

December 20, 2010 Vimarsh , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Ayodhya debate , Koenraad Elst , Ram Janamasthan , Hindu nationalist
A Perspective on Premier Wen’s Visit: No Material Change in Sino-Indian Equation
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Behind the usual bonhomie exhibited after the issue of joint communiqué by India and China post Prime Minister Wen Jia Bao's visit basic issue that needs to be addressed is what are the major take aways? Were the concerns of the two countries add....

December 20, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Pipedreams About Pipelines
Sushant Sareen

The superlatives being attributed to the signing of the Inter-Government Agreement (IGA) and the Gas Pipeline Framework Agreement (GPFA) for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline appear rather farfetched especially when seen in ....

December 16, 2010 Central Asia , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Wikileaks cables show India's faulty diplomacy
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The failure of our diplomatic offensive against Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks rests in part on our faulty tactics. The Wikileaks disclosures are a part of the classified US diplomatic traffic comprising, as is the norm, not only of reporta....

December 15, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy
Sino-Indian Equation: Time for a Reset
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

India’s China policy has been marked by friendship, sentimentalism, fear, diffidence, appeasement, brinksmanship, wishful thinking and engagement. Of late, despite positive political overtures, there are undercurrents of growing negativism in the r....

December 13, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Engaging China: Underscoring India’s Core Interests
Debasish Chaudhuri

Why is Premier Wen Jiabao’s Visit Now? A return visit by Chinese Premier was due for over two years since Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh visited China in January 2008. China’s assertive policies could be said to have bec....

December 11, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
American Foreign Policy Experts Interact with VIF

A discussion with a delegation of American foreign policy experts from the Washington based think-tanks Foreign Policy Initiative and the German Marshall Fund was held on 6 December 2010 at 2.30 p.m. at the VIF. The group consisted of William Kristol....

December 08, 2010 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Interaction , American Foreign Policy , Indo-US relations
Cure for the ‘International Migraine’
Sushant Sareen

A perusal of the US embassy cables made public by Wikileaks makes it clear that while the US has all the information and intelligence about the double-game being played by Pakistan, it finds itself clueless, even helpless, in bringing to an end this ....

December 08, 2010 Terrorism , US , Pakistan
Afghanistan: Pakistan’s Kashmir Blackmail
Indranil Banerjie

US President Barack Obama has kept his promise to begin pulling out American soldiers from Afghanistan by 2011. At the recently concluded Lisbon summit (19-20 November 2010), he suggested that 2014 would be the final year for major US combat engageme....

December 07, 2010 Afghanistan
Indian Options in Afghanistan
Lt General Shontanu Choudhary

President Obama, while agreeing to the ‘surge’ as suggested by General Stanley A. McCrystal announced in 2009 that US Army will start pulling out of Afghanistan after July 2011. This has resulted in a suspected loss of morale of the US Army and ....

December 03, 2010 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
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