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Analysing India’s budget for 2012-13
March 31 , 2012 Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran
Views: 5182
India’s budget deficit is hardcoded into its left-liberal intellectual discourse. Most intelligent Indians comfortably straddle the views that government is corrupt, venal and inefficient and that more ...

Economic Studies

Better Government to Government Efforts Needed to Rejuvenate Nepal-India Relations
March 30 , 2012 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Views: 4439
Background People-to-people relations are always pivotal for maintaining long-term bilateral relations between two countries. But such a relation gets new lease of life if it is backed by due understand...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

A Perspective on Subsidies in Our Economy
March 30 , 2012 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 6627
One of the favourite whipping boys of economists with a free market bias, neo-liberals, businessmen and ultra conservative right wing politicians is the question of subsidies. The whole economic scenar...

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

A Wrong Move on Lanka
March 28 , 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4642
Many arguments can be made against our decision to vote against Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council in Geneva, a decision highly questionable from the foreign policy point of view. Domestic compulsion...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Indian Maoists: The Extent of Their External Linkages
March 28 , 2012 Dr N Manoharan
Views: 13480
It is untrue to consider Left-wing Extremism as purely local and self-sustaining. The extent of external linkages of the Indian Maoists is vast. The actors with which Naxals have linkages include Maoist...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Some Lessons from Elections – 2012
March 28 , 2012 Brig (retd.) RS Chhikara
Views: 2746
Elections 2012 have been over for some time. Media and public have analyzed the results. Political parties are currently busy either celebrating or finding alibis for failure. They also claim to be wait...

Governance and Political Studies

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