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Does prudence belie reality? |
The moment finance minister Pranab Mukherjee announced a mere 4% nominal increase in defence budget pegged at Rs 1,47,344 crore for 2010-11, members of Indian strategic community started showing their frustrations.
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| South Asia Weekly Report |
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South Asia Weekly
13 March 2010 - 20 March 2010 |
Vol III, Issue 10
For the first time since the conclusion of the ethnic war, a senior Indian official visited Sri Lanka. An old Sri Lanka hand, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, other senior officials, |
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Women's Bill: Liberal measure, illiberal politics
16 March 2010 |
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Saeed Naqvi
That the Yadavs also constitute the political class is a fact but in this instance neutralized by the backward environment in which women of intermediate castes live
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Why Putin needs to be thanked
12 March 2010 |
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Kanwal Sibal
In the strategic sectors much has been achieved in the last decade. Russia has given us its most advanced aircraft, tanks, rocket launchers, cruise missiles, frigates
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Mandalisation of Indian polity: Full Circle
12 March 2010 |
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Satish Misra
Isolation of Yadavs is going to impact the politics of not only the Hindi heartland but the politics of the non-Hindi states also
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| Pakistan Urdu Media Watch |
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Osama's secretary is in police net
March 11, 2010 |
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Shahid Raheem, Vol I, Issue XVIII
Pakistan Urdu Media Watch Issue Eighteen finds out why Taliban is still continuing its relentless attacks on police agencies
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| ORF Discourse |
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India’s Strategic Culture and Security Challenges
January 2010 |
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General V. P. Malik
Delivering the 30th Bhimsen Sachar Memorial Lecture for 2009 in New Delhi, the former Chief of the Army Staff highlights the flaws in India’s strategic thinking and stresses the need for a more focused and clearly defined vision for the future. |
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| ORF Working Paper Series |
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Who Participates in Higher Education in India?
11 February 2010 |
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Rakesh Basant and Gitanjali Sen
This paper explores how an individual’s participation in higher education (HE) is dependent on his religious affiliations, socio-economic status and demographic characteristics. It argues that an appropriate measure of ’deficits’ in participation should inform the nature and scope of affirmative action. |
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The Coming Blowback: How Pakistan is Endangering the World
4 December 2009 |
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Wilson John, ORF-Rupa
Coming Blowback is an attempt to test the conventional wisdom about Pakistan and its war on terrorism. Reaching beyond the headlines and banners, the book documents, and investigates, what the War on Terror has missed so far. |
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| Annual Report |
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Annual Report 2009
15 October 2009 |
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OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (ORF) is an endeavour to aid and influence formulation of policies for building a strong and prosperous India. The expectations of the global community from India are immense as the country is poised to play a leading role in the knowledge age. The Foundation believes that by 2020, India will be one of the world’s great economic powers and contribute to a significant transformation in the quality of life of humanity. |
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| International |
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| The fiasco that need not have been |
| 10 March 2010 |
| Vikram Sood |
| What Salman Bashir did was a scaled down version of what Musharraf did at the India Today Conclave a year ago in New Delhi |
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| What should India expect in Afghanistan? |
| 10 March 2010 |
| It is difficult to predict if and when the US will change its decades old policy of pardoning Pakistan all its transgressions |
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| South Asia |
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8 March 2010
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| The visit of Indian Foreign Secretary to Nirupama Rao, over the weekend has possibilities, both for progress in bilateral relations and speculation. |
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| Why is Radical Islam spreading in South Asia? |
| 12 March 2010 |
| The rhetoric and the justifications that Radical Islam employs to create willing suicide bombers must be properly understood |
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