Issue. 21
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India-Pakistan Relations after Mumbai Attacks
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Wilson John and Kaustav Dhar Chakrabarti
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| 23 September 2009 |
| The Paper makes a critical appraisal of India-Pakistan relations and explores their future trajectory in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008. The rising tide of terrorism within Pakistan after 9/11 and the importance of South Asia to the United States made Pakistan selectively withdraw support to terrorist groups. This, in turn, helped India's efforts to initiate the Composite Dialogue in 2004. |
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Issue. 20
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Legally Empowering the Sentinels of the Nation
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Manish Tewari
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| 21 August 2009 |
| It is imperative in a democracy that every organization of the government must draw its powers, privileges and authority from clearly defined legal statutes. What is the legal architecture that empowers both our central law enforcement and intelligence services? This Paper looks at the legal underpinnings of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Serious Fraud Investigation office (SFIO), Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing. (R&AW). |
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Issue. 19
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Issue. 18
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India and the Economic Meltdown: Challenges and Possible Responses
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Samir Saran and Siba Prasad Tripathy
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| 15 April 2009 |
| The financial crisis across the globe and the ensuing responses by nations and non-state actors has dominated both public consciousness and political debate in the recent past. The discussion on suitable stimulus packages, the causes for the financial disorder and future restructuring of the financial systems has often been dominated by the rhetoric of specific constituencies serving individual interests even as it loses sight of the substantive argument. In India too, the eagerness to commend our regulatory practices has tended to brush the larger debate on the actual economic fallout of the crisis under the carpet. |
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Issue. 17
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Military-militant nexus in Pakistan and implications for peace with India
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Wilson John
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| 06 April 2009 |
| On November 26, 2008, 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai undid in less than 60 hours what governments of two sovereign nations had been struggling for over four years to achieve-peace and stability in the region. These terrorists were from Pakistan, recruited, trained and armed by Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), a terrorist group with visible presence across the country. |
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Issue. 16
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India's Growing Energy Insecurity: Volatile crude prices and a tattered road map to reform
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Sunjoy Joshi
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| 13 February 2009 |
| Over the past few years, there is noticeable amongst India watchers an inescapable feeling of disappointment at what has been seen as a perceptible rolling back of many of the much vaunted reforms that had been the face of the country's efforts to integrate with world energy markets through the turn of the century. With an import dependence of over 70%, and increasing with each passing year, the petroleum sector had been the obvious choice to move on reforms. |
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Issue. 15
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Pakistan's Schools of Terror *
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Wilson John
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| 11 December 2008 |
| Terror training schools, teaching hundreds of new and young recruits in suicide missions and use of sophisticated weapons like AK-47, Mi-5 and Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs), have been active in many parts of Pakistan, including Punjab, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Waziristan and Pak-occupied Kashmir. |
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Issue. 14
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Can the Indian economy emerge unscathed from the global financial crisis?
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Sridhar Kundu
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| 21 November 2008 |
| The crisis in financial markets has spread at an alarming rate. Though the epicenter of the crisis was the US sub-prime mortgage market, its shockwaves are being felt in financial markets all over the world. As the financial sector is fully integrated with the real economy, the burgeoning crisis in the financial sector poses a threat to the real economy. Macro-economic fundamentals like growth, employment and prices are bound to be affected. The shock has been felt in India's financial market as well since we are far more exposed to international markets after our macro-economic reforms of 1991. Admittedly, the strength of our banks and other financial institutions coupled with conservative and sound regulation by the Reserve Bank of India has made us better equipped to face this challenge; nevertheless as problems spread to the real economy, policy makers will find their task cut out for them. |
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Issue. 13
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International Human Rights Standards: How Does India Measure Up?
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Dilip Lahiri
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| 03 May 2008 |
| China's fulsome praise for India's human rights record on April 14, 2008 in the first session of the UN Human Rights Council's new system of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) would have come as a respite for the Indian delegation even as India was being subjected to hard and searching questions on torture in police custody, extra-judicial killings and child labour by representatives of several members of Western delegations of the Human Rights Council. While some recent openness and improvement in China's own human rights record is there for all to see, this endorsement of India's human rights record is perhaps not the best recommendation for India at a time of intense international criticism of China's current repression in Tibet. |
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Issue. 12
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Malaysian Indian Community: Victim of 'Bumiputera' Policy
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Dilip Lahiri
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| 15 February 2008 |
| Once comprising 12 per cent of the population, Malaysia's two million Indians make up less than 8 per cent of the population today. Apart from the economic discrimination they have suffered under Malaysia's Bumiputera policy since 1971, a number of sensitive issues affecting the culture and religion of the Malaysian Indians have come up. |
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