Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
Strategic depth vs strategic breadth Vanni Cappelli
America needs to reframe its strategic approach to the region
No anomaly in the shortage Nitin Pai & Sushant K Singh
Why India needs to move towards more capital-intensive armed forces
Securing space on the table Adityanjee
Responding to a new strategic arms race
FILTER
On Kosovo; Four stages of a jihadi; Maoists strike in Bhutan; India’s foreign technical aid and loans
IN PARLIAMENT
PRS Legislative Research: Budget Session 2008
IN DEPTH
Minimum government, maximum governance Mukul G Asher
The Gujarat model of governance holds lessons for the rest of India
ROUNDUP
Pinnacle of cynicism V Anantha Nageswaran
This year’s Union budget takes us back to the bad days of the 70s and 80s
Futures for farmers Karthik Shashidhar
Good futures markets are essential for farmers’ welfare
Advani’s economic agenda Atanu Dey
The importance of getting it right
BOOKS
Confessions of a retailer Ravikiran Rao
A review of Kishore Biyani’s book, It happened in India
Lakshman Anand’s picture of the Gujarat classroom is cute. There’s a bored student in the background stretching his arms, and the curious kid in the foreground has her shoes not on her feet but on the bench in her front. Relaxed class.
Oldtimer,
The person in the backyard is more likely to be the teacher. But I spent a lot of time wondering what the shoes were doing on the desk…
am surprised not many are talking about the fertiliser subsidy and its biiig increase every year..
Ananth,
Criticising the UPA budget is the subject of a multiple volume book. The fertiliser subsidy is only the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg.