India’s Defence Pains
Bureaucratic bungles are denying Indian forces arms they desperately need, writes James Hardy Read Here – The Diplomat
Category: India
Romance And Realism
American policymakers have maintained that a strong India – working in close cooperation with the United States – is good for America and the world. Yet, divergent approaches to some key international issues have risen to the fore. New Delhi and Washington have differed, for instance, over whether to apply additional sanctions on Iran in […]
Oh, That Horrible Feeling Again…
India’s prosperous future has hardly ever seemed farther away than it does today. The country’s ongoing economic crisis has darkened the atmosphere — and done so in a way tragically familiar to most Indians. Read Here – Foreign Affairs
India’s Tryst With Destiny
Modi is a hypnotic orator who, as one corporate executive after another has said, offers the best model of governance in a country rife with corruption and red tape. His actions in February 2002 have led him to be compared with Adolf Hitler, while his obsession with management details have led him to be compared […]
India And Israel: Dancing The Military Tango
Last year, Israel topped the list of arms suppliers to India—just as India officially became the globe’s largest arms importer. And it’s not just missiles and drones: India has increasingly leaned on Tel Aviv for high-tech warfare, scooping up the Phalcon airborne radar and advanced electronic surveillance systems along with equipment to retrofit now-rickety Soviet-era weaponry. Read […]
In India, Lalu Shows Family Power
Much of Indian politics today isn’t much more than the cult of the family. And while individuals come and go, families go on forever. Read Here – Bloomberg
And, There Goes The Caviar
For Arvind Mayaram, India’s push to avoid having its credit rating cut to junk means he’ll have to forgo caviar and a two-meter-long flat bed in first class on his flight from New Delhi to Washington D.C. this week. Read Here – Bloomberg
Managing The Pacific
The Indo-Pacific ranges from East Africa, across the Indian Ocean, to the western and central Pacific, including Japan and Australia. Within this vast area, cooperation between countries and systems of alliances form, such as cooperation between the U.S., Japan and Australia, countering trends such as China’s assertive behavior in the South China Sea and its […]
India’s Most Dysfunctional Relationship
The ongoing furore over India’s former army chief General V.K. Singh has turned the spotlight on the dysfunctional relationship between the country’s democracy and its military.
The South Asian Handshake
No, it’s not the potential handshake between U.S. president Barack Obama and Iran‘s new president Hassan Rowhani (which didn’t ultimately pan out)—it’s the meeting of Pakistan‘s new prime minister Nawaz Sharif and India‘s outgoing prime minister Manmohan Singh that’s set to take place this weekend following this week’s United Nations General Assembly activity. Read Here […]
