Praful Bidwai
The launch last week of India’s Agni-V, claimed to be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), was greeted with machismo, raucousness and sabre-rattling. The tit-for-tat test of the Hatf-IV-Shaheen-1A missile, which followed, evoked an identical reaction in Pakistan. Few people warned against a missile arms race which can destabilise this region.
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Eric S. Margolis
India launches first intercontinental ballistic missile. True enough, India did launch a new, 5,000 km-ranged Agni-V missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead to Beijing and Shanghai.
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By Amulya Ganguli
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s career provides a classic example of how a kinky ideology can thwart political ambitions in a pluralistic society. Yet, when the same ideological outlook enabled him to scale the heights of political power by winning the 2002 assembly elections in Gujarat, he must have presumed that even greater successes were in store for him.
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By Kuldip Nayar
However unhappy, I cannot comment on the story of The Indian Express hinting at a coup with the march of 800 troops towards Delhi, because I have no access to the source of that information. Therefore, I confine myself to the witch-hunt on the leakage of a letter by Chief of Army Staff Vijay Kumar (VK) Singh.
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By Manik Mehta
India’s tight-rope walk as it tries to strike a balance between its long-term strategic partnership with Continue reading
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Haider Nizamani
WHAT basic principles should guide India’s foreign and strategic policy over the next decade? Eight eminent Indians with expertise in foreign policy met regularly over a year to answer this question.
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By Shahid Javed Burki
Democracy is the glue that has kept India together in spite of its diversity. Pakistan followed a different trajectory for most of the timesince independence. It was the absence of democracy that eventually led to the break-up of the original Pakistan. Continue reading
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By Kuldip Nayar
As the dust settles, I wonder if elections in five states — UP, Punjab, Uttrakhand, Goa and Manipur — have further nurtured democracy, the system which we have faithfully followed since the first election in. When I see that most countries from Europe to Asia pay only a lip service to the democratic election, I feel proud that India stands practically alone with a civil authority at the top.
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T.N. Ninan
A poster child of globalisation, India has recently lost some of its shine as growth slows and the question of inequality and serious malnutrition and hunger hits the headlines.
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Dr N Janardhan
Amid the ongoing developments involving Iran, Israel, the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, India’s foreign policy is once again under the scanner.
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