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Rowdy Rehman
December 19 , 2012 Sushant Sareen
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If ever there was any delusion among Indian policy makers of Pakistan’s changed policy towards India, or any expectation of receiving satisfaction on bringing the planners and perpetrators of the 26/11 ...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Going by The Script
December 19 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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All those who have criticized the Indian government’s decision to invite Pakistan’s interior minister Rahman Malik to the country to operationalize the revised liberalised visa regime have missed severa...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism, Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Acquiring the Heritage Tag – is it enough?
December 14 , 2012 Dr Anirban Ganguly
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Early December 2012 a United Nations Committee ‘tasked with protecting the world’s oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, craftsmanship and knowledge of nature’ added twenty new items to th...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Politics of Secularism: Who is Secular in India?
December 14 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
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I may be permitted to start this paper with a personal statement because some controversial issues would be raised in the paper and I want it to be understood in advance that personally I am deeply comm...

Governance and Political Studies

Dealing with the Neighbour from Hell - The Prime Minister Must Not Visit Pakistan
December 14 , 2012 Amb Prabhat P Shukla
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To the insistent clamour that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must visit Pakistan in the near future, this is a rejoinder, and a plea not to be emotional in our approach to relations with Pakistan. An ana...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

The Divided Oceans
December 14 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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The security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region, which American‘re-balancing’ towards Asia and Barack Obama’s tour of some Asian countries so early into his second presidency seek to address, are man...

Indo-Pacific, US, International Relations and Diplomacy

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