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Use and Misuse of Public Funds: Some Questions Which Must be Asked
May 15 , 2013 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 14134
Recently Rahul Gandhi visited Bhopal for a day on purely Congress Party work. He did not come by a normal commercial flight, the fare of which he could have reimbursed as a Member of Parliament. He came...

Governance and Political Studies

Bowing Down to The Dragon
May 15 , 2013 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3298
Our statements on the recent India-China face-off in Ladakh continue to confound. One would have thought that we would have analysed the incident in depth, tried to figure out China’s motivations in sta...
The art of a Bloodless War
May 10 , 2013 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 2825
This is the lesson from Ladakh — when cracks are papered over, they reappear several conclusions can be drawn from The India-China Stand-off in Ladakh. One, China can create an incident on the unsettled...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Test of democracy in Pakistan
May 10 , 2013 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 5153
Apart from being the first elections to be conducted by a legitimately constituted civilian set-up on completion of a full term by a democratically elected government, Pakistan’s upcoming elections sche...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

The Imbalance in Education in India
May 10 , 2013 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 8025
Education is a multi-layered cake in which the icing and decoration is on the top, in which the base is the foundation on which the whole system rests. Obviously the base of every education system has t...

Governance and Political Studies

Defence Planning and Budgetting Woes Persist
May 7 , 2013 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
Views: 3737
The defence budget for 2013-2014 was passed in the Parliament without as much as a whisker of debate. The Parliament’s Standing Committee on Defence (SCD) as a statutory requirement did go through the d...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

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