Vivekananda International Foundation | Seeking Harmony in Diversity

Collapse of the French and German Government:Turmoil in the EU’s Franco-German Engine

The European Union was born out of the ashes of World War II, and gained recognition as not just an economic alliance, but an overall integration project, fuelled by two of its biggest Member States- Germany and France. Former French President...

December 24 , 2024

Building Capabilities and Capacities for India - Policy suggestions for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government 2024

The Vivekananda International Foundation has published a report Building Capabilities and Capacities for India: Policy Suggestions for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government 2024. It makes several policy suggestions in areas ranging from...

July 11 , 2024

Building Capabilities and Capacities for India - Policy suggestions for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government 2024

July 4 , 2024

New Paradigms in Governance 2019-2024

Under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Modi, the Governance landscape of India has radically changed in scale, scope and learning paradigms. India has succeeded in transforming technologically obsolete institutions into modern day digital...

November 30 , 2023

Sri Lankan Leaders: Forcing the Hands of its Citizens

Last Saturday morning (9 July 2022) Sri Lanka faced a level of mayhem on the roads of not only Colombo but all of its major cities as that was most unprecedented but not truly unexpected. For a country that has struggled through ethnic stride, the...

July 11 , 2022

Decoding Atmanirbhar Bharat with Dr. Anantha Nageswaran

The Vivekananda International Foundation organized a virtual interaction with Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran to discuss the Special Economic “Atmanirbhar Bharat” Package announced by the Government of India in the wake of COVID-19. Dr. Nageswaran is a...

July 20 , 2020

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, April 14, 2020

Economic IMF cancels debt payments for 6 months for 25 poor nations The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on April 13 to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so they can help tackle the...

April 14 , 2020

Vimarsha: Panel Discussion on Political Stability and Transformation of Union Budget

A special edition of Vimarsh was organized on Political Stability and Transformation of Union Budget at the Vivekananda International Foundation on February 15, 2020. The public event which marked the launch of the newly set-up VIF Centre for...

February 25 , 2020

‘Strangers No More’, by Sanjay Hazarika, Aleph Book Company, pp. 413, Price Rs 799/-

There are three kinds of media people who travel to the North-East of India: the north-easterners who have had to desert the sylvan vales of their region as economic refugees; career adventure journalists who like to get stellar roles in their...

April 13 , 2018

Of National Governance and Regional Governance

The term ‘governance’ is generally associated with the conduct of a Government at the national or the local levels. But there is also the concept of global governance, or regional governance that goes beyond national boundaries in reach...

January 24 , 2017