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Will Pakistan tame the snakes in its backyard?
Amulya Ganguli | 15 Dec , 2015 1 comment
Will Pakistan tame the snakes in its backyard?

Although there have been dissenting voices in both India and Pakistan about the resumption of dialogue between the two countries, there is an unarticulated belief that the latest initiative has a somewhat greater chance of success than the earlier attempts.  Why has Pakistan agreed to the dialogue? One probable reason is India’s...

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A Soldier with Two Wives
Claude Arpi | 14 Dec , 2015 1 comment
A Soldier with Two Wives

Lakshman Singh, a slim young captain had two wives when, in May 1962, he was told to join the ill-fated 7 Infantry Brigade on the Namkha chu (river) of the then North East Frontier Agency (NEFA); clouds had been gathering on the Indo-China border.  Many officers and jawans must have been in his case. One wife was the ‘regular’ one; the...

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The road to nowhere: SAARC at 30
Sabah Ishtiaq | 13 Dec , 2015 0 comments
The road to nowhere: SAARC at 30

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an eight member country regional grouping- India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal & Sri Lanka. Apart from permanent members, SAARC also has nine observer countries (Thirteenth SAARC summit, Dhaka 2005) namely, Australia, China, European Union, Iran, Japan,...

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Shinzo Abe in New Delhi: A Growing Strategic Partnership
Monish Gulati | 12 Dec , 2015 1 comment
Shinzo Abe in New Delhi: A Growing Strategic Partnership

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be in New Delhi on a three-day visit from December 11–13. He will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an agenda to widen and deepen the points of engagement and cooperation between the two nations. The discussions are likely to range from defence and civil nuclear cooperation to...

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India and Taiwan: De-hyphenating a relationship
India and Taiwan: De-hyphenating a relationship

A lot of media attention is often given to the major shifts in India’s ties with US, Japan and South East Asia and Israel in the past two decades, as a consequence of not just the economic reforms of 1991, but the changing geo-political scenario globally in the past 25 years. The current government is trying to give a further push to...

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