Is scholarship relevant to the policymaker? Is the academy preparing people to go into the policy world?
A year after the momentous general election of 2014, some significant changes in Indian political landscape can be seen emerging.
Although geography limits New Delhi’s role in East Asia, Modi is betting India can win friends and partners through active engagement.
India needs to industrialize, but can it do so at the expense of its food security?
India should judge the possibilities for civil nuclear cooperation with China on the basis of technical merit and economic costs. Delhi should not allow political reservations, especially on the Sino-Pak nuclear nexus, to come in the way of atomic energy cooperation between India and China.
Modi is trying to move the Sino-Indian relationship out of the stasis that it finds itself in.
Modi is abandoning the old approach to China. But he needs to get the Delhi establishment to play ball.
The Indian armed forces played a decisive role in winning the two World Wars. But national amnesia about India’s role in the two wars tended to diminish the subcontinent’s massive contributions to the shaping of the 20th century international order.
There is increasing evidence that corruption undermined the international mission in Afghanistan.
Narendra Modi’s number one priority is the economy. But while he deserves some credit for improving India’s macroeconomic performance, he has been slow to enact bold reforms that could improve the business climate and the functioning of government.