Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
The unkindest cut Salil Tripathi
The loan waiver keeps poor farmers where they are
Waiver of mass debt Vijay Mahajan
How that money could have been used to really change lives
Concerning senior citizens Mukul G Asher &? Deepa Vasudevan
Budget 2008-09 and the implications for a greying population
Waiting for modernisation Sushant K Singh & Nitin Pai
The dismal state of long term defence procurement planning
Letters
On the arms race in outer space
FILTER
Foreign aid to Afghanistan; Water and climate change
IN DEPTH
Dealing with China’s power projection Harsh V Pant
A rising China will not tolerate a rising India as a peer competitor
ROUNDUP
It matters what generals say K S Madhu Shankar
The army chief’s worrying remarks on the India-China border
Options in Sri Lanka T S Gopi Rethinaraj
And the risk of Sri Lanka falling sway to outside powers
New language formulas Sujay Rao Mandavilli
From an unsatisfactory compromise to a liberal decentralisation
BOOKS
Tagore in China Stephen S Hay
Edited excerpts from Asian Ideas of East and West
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