Shorn of all rhetoric, the bare truth is that there is no incentive for India to change the status quo on any bilateral issue with Pakistan. India is today not bogged down by a bilateral issue, whether it be Sir Creek, Siachen or even Kashmir, but by i…
The current defence budget formulation largely involves incremental budgeting (8-10 per cent increase in nominal terms over the previous year), with usually no separation between inflation-induced and real increase in expenditure. No groups at the plan…
The following book review of Blaine Harden’s ‘Escape from Camp 14′ was originally published in The Indian Express on March 5, 2012.
Barely 200 kilometres from the ultramodern Seoul high-rise where I
write this is North Korea’s Camp 14, where so…
I was quoted in a Los Angeles Times’ report on March 5, 2012, "Hillary Clinton to visit India, Bangladesh with Modest Agenda."
"There’s a broad consensus that India-U.S. relations are still in a
state of drift," said Dhruva Jaishankar… "The two
countries are talking more about more issues than any time in the past.
That said, there’s no room in either capital for anything very
ambitious."
Astonishingly, there is little correlation between underdevelopment and Maoist influence. In fact, most underdeveloped areas are not Maoist strongholds. In their 2007 study on measuring regional backwardness in India, Vani Borooah and Amresh Dubey foun…
Astonishingly, there is little correlation between underdevelopment and Maoist influence. In fact, most underdeveloped areas are not Maoist strongholds. In their 2007 study on measuring regional backwardness in India, Vani Borooah and Amresh Dubey foun…
Given our No First Use nuclear doctrine, there is a certain minimum credible deterrent that India needs to hold. Minimum credible deterrent, which underpins India’s nuclear doctrine, was incidentally the title of the study carried out under Rajiv Gan…
In simple terms This appeared in DNA yesterday. Let’s look at some of interesting questions that arose after the recent test of the Agni-V missile. The first is whether it is really an inter-continental ballistic missile being undersold as an intermediate range ballistic missile out of reasons of political correctness. Well, other than for the [...]
In the 14-point report, there are only four real points of discussion between the US and Pakistan. First, PCNS wants the US to stop drone strikes in Pakistani territory. US has already ruled it out and that stance is unlikely to change. Second, Pakista…
In a world of 0% interest rates, if Singapore were to raise rates, it would attract more capital into the island-state rather than less