While the institutional reforms and structures are in place, often their effectiveness is impeded by corrupt practices and lack of proper maintenance and implementation on ground.

• Medha Bisht |
• September 30, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

The composition of the Indian delegation to the ongoing Strategic Economic Dialogue is suggestive that issues such as telecom, water, infrastructural development and railways are being discussed on a priority basis.

• R N Das |
• September 27, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

Left behind will be a quasi-theocratic Afghan state compelled to accommodate Talibani-style cultural medievalism and a Pakistani state teetering on the brink of political self-destruction and social chaos.

• Harold A. Gould |
• September 26, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

The PM’s speech in the UN General Assembly shows that Indian foreign policy may be rediscovering age old themes which had become subdued in recent years.

• Arvind Gupta |
• September 26, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

India is currently in the midst of a battery of scheduled missile tests at its Chandipur test range off the coast of Orissa, including scheduled tests of the Prithvi-II and Agni-II. On Saturday, India tested, for the third time, a 750-km semi-ballistic missile named Shourya. The Shourya has roughly the same range as the Agni-I but is designed to be more mobile, with a reduced logistics trail.

• Vipin Narang |
• September 26, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

There is no point in acting with bravado when we do not have the necessary military capacity to take on the Chinese in the South China Seas.

• R. S. Kalha |
• September 23, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

With Burhanuddin Rabbani’s assassination, the reconciliation process with the Taliban is dead.

• Ashok K. Behuria |
• September 22, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

Piecing together Thailand’s fractured polity and society will not be an easy task especially given that the Shinawatra government has to live up to the expectations of its supporters while allaying the opposition’s apprehensions.

• Rahul Mishra |
• September 20, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

Only a well-formulated and decisive stance on issues would make India’s case for a permanent seat at the horse-shoe table well-earned.

• Keerthi Sampath Kumar , Saurabh Mishra |
• September 19, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments

Introduction

• Arvind Gupta , Sarita Azad |
• September 17, 2011 |
• IDSA Comments