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India's Deafening Silence On The Tumult In The Arab World
February 27 , 2011 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Sushant Sareen
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“The worst place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral during a moral crisis”: Dante
An Exploration of Sri Lankan Strategy in the Aftermath of LTTE
February 27 , 2011 D. Gnanagurunathan
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Sri Lanka offering Pakistan and China a greater role to end the ethnic conflict perhaps can be explained through India’s reluctance to intervene in the conflict. But in the post-LTTE Sri Lanka, the incr...

Sri Lanka

India doesn't need advice from others in responding to Egypt
February 23 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 3764
Criticism of India’s perceived reluctance to endorse the democratic urgings surfacing in many Arab countries is misplaced. The Indian media has, of course, covered the upsurge in Egypt very extensively,...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Knowing when not to talk
February 20 , 2011 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 4580
The ministry of external affairs press release of February 10, and our foreign secretary’s press conference of February 8, clearly indicate that the latter and her Pakistani counterpart agreed at Thimph...

Terrorism, Jammu & Kashmir

Has Nepal Found The Answer?
February 20 , 2011 C D Sahay
Views: 6570
More than eight months after the resignation of CPN (UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal as Prime Minister of the country and after 16 failed attempts finally, on February 3, 2011, UML Chairman Jhalnath Khan...

Nepal

Scoring Self-Goals with Pakistan
February 18 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4164
We have decided to resume the so-called composite dialogue with Pakistan, without admitting as much. Why not be frank about the change in our position? Why resort to word play to obfuscate? If we are go...

Jammu & Kashmir

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