The rational school operators of Uttar Pradesh
Just like over nine out of ten families in Karnataka, many school operators in Uttar Pradesh demonstrated that they are rational actors. If the Indian government has announced that it will give Rs 325 crores over the five years to madrassas (which, among others, means "an honorarium of Rs [...]
Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
Making a leader
Excerpts from a lecture on leadership and discipline
Sam HFJ Manekshaw
Our voice in our history
Academic freedom, private funding and historical research
Jayakrishnan Nair
Letters
On whether or not India has a coherent foreign policy
FILTER
A survey of think-tanks
On China policy; Fixing the FATA; An Indo-Israeli alliance?
Vijay Vikram
IN DEPTH
Hold steady in Afghanistan
India is on the right track and [...]
Making India’s defence policy consistent with its emergence as a significant global player.
Here’s a version of my essay that appeared in Pakistan’s The Friday Times July 11-17, 2008 | (Vol. XX, No. 21):
India’s armed forces, according to K Subrahmanyam, have “not modernised their decision-making process ever since Lord Ismay prescribed it in 1947. Command and [...]
Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
The New Jihadis
Local manifestations of a global pattern
Nitin Pai
Getting human rights right
Are human rights activists playing into the hands of
terrorists?
Sandeep Balakrishna, Salil Tripathi & Rohit Pradhan
Towards a cultural liberalism
Governments must stop siding with intolerant mobs
Jayakrishnan Nair
FILTER
A survey of think-tanks
Feline counter-terrorism; Measuring up against international human rights standards; On what makes foreign policy tick; Assessing [...]
A step on the road towards equality, merit and a quest for excellence
Excerpts from Mukul Asher’s DNA op-ed piece on the Supreme Court verdict on OBC reservations*:
The society’s need for competence and employable graduates has been balanced with provision of educational access to the OBCs.
The judgement of the Supreme Court (should) be respected in [...]
Five year reviews and creamy layer exclusions
Lex blogger Ninad Laud was at the Supreme Court when it gave its verdict on the reservations for OBCs in higher education. Head over to his blog for the details.
The implications of the verdict, he says, are:
Caste based reservations are to stay in educational institutions but minus the [...]
The solution to officer shortages is military modernisation and liberalisation of education
In our op-ed in Mint, Sushant Singh and I argue that the shortage of officers in the armed forces is not an anomaly, and merely raising take-home salaries isn’t going to solve the problem. First, India needs a capital-intensive army and must allocate more [...]
Give to the School Choice campaign
Centre for Civil Society’s School Voucher Program will award vouchers to 9400 primary school students across India. Each voucher worth upto INR 6000 will fund one child’s education in the school of their choice for a year. The voucher will be given until they complete their primary education from their [...]
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