Uttam Kumar Sinha

An opinion piece by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA on 'How civil engineers shaped India's geography' has been published in Hindustan Times, on September 19, 2021.

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Research Fellow, MP-IDSA Dr. Uttam Sinha's chapter 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Climate Change' has been published in the volume Aatmannirbhar Bharat: A Vibrant and Strong India by S. Gurumurthy and Arvind Gupta (Aryan Publishers, New Delhi), with a message by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

An opinion piece by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘Devise a new water governance plan to deal with the future of the Indus basin’ has been published in ‘The Hindustan Times’, on August 25, 2021.

The Permanent Indus Commission that meets every year to settle differences over IWT is an excellent mechanism to raise concerns over water efficiency, ecological integrity and sustainability in the backdrop of the climate crisis. A new water governance framework will be required to deal with the uncertain future of the Indus basin, says Dr. Sinha.

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Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Uttam Sinha's co-edited volume 'Modi 2.0: A Resolve To Secure India' has been published by Pentagon Press.

The Volume, edited by Ranjit Pachnanda, Bibek Debroy, Anirban Ganguly and Uttam Sinha has 17 chapters that analyse the NDA government's approach to security.

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Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Uttam Sinha's section ‘Harness: Tapping the River’ has been published in the World Bank’s Volume on the Brahmaputra river, titled 'The Restless River.

The Volume is edited by Ganesh Pangare, Bushra Nishat, Xiawei Liao and Halla Maher.

An opinion piece by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘As CCP celebrates its centenary, Mao’s hydraulic legacy lives on’ has been published in Hindustan Times on July 1 2021.

As it celebrates its centenary on July 1, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has put out a propaganda offensive, extolling socialist culture with nationalistic messages, writes Dr. Sinha.

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An article on India-EU Summit by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘India-EU Summit: Building on the Momentum’, has been published in ‘The Nationalist’, on June 11, 2021.

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Dr. Uttam Sinha's article ‘India a Tripolar Nation: Breaking the Ice’ has been published in the April 16-30, 2021, Vol. 1 Issue 20 of Brisbane-based ‘India News’.

India’s Arctic approach needs to be well rounded and comprehensive considering the convergence of the threegeos: the geo-physical, the geo-economic and the geo-strategic, writes Dr. Sinha.

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The Hindustan Times published an Opinion Piece by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘As a tri-polar nation, India has a critical role in the Arctic’, on April 11, 2021.

For India, the Arctic has a deep civilisational connect. It enshrines a consciousness of human social evolution as a response to the physical environment as Bal Gangadhar Tilak expressed in his work, The Arctic Home in the Vedas (1903), writes Dr. Sinha.

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The Opinion Piece of Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘India must leverage the Indus Water Treaty for progress’ has been published in the Hindustan Times on March 23, 2021.

The provisions of the treaty entitled for India on the western rivers remain woefully unutilised both in terms of storage capacity and hydropower generation. After the effective abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, the current government, which realises water as a mean to socioeconomic ends, has fast-tracked a number of multi-purpose river projects in Kashmir, writes Dr. Sinha.

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