The January 2010 issue of Pragati discusses India’s options in Afghanistan. While there are a number of options ranging from scaling up training of Afghan national security forces to actually scaling down development projects if the United States quits prematurely, editorially, we argue that it is in India’s interests to send combat-ready troops to Afghanistan. [...]
Urban India’s failure to vote requires greater study
The Acorn has previously invited the ire of the citizens of Mumbai and Bangalore by blaming their neglect of voting for the sorry state of their cities’ (and India’s) governance.
Now, you would have thought that the series of terrorist attacks over the last few years—in commuter trains, [...]
Its causes and its remedies
Which of the three, Kautilya asks, is the worst—an impoverished people, a greedy people or a disaffected people?
He answers:
An impoverished people are ever apprehensive of oppression and destruction (by over-taxation, etc.), and are therefore desirous of getting rid of their impoverishment, or of waging war or of migrating elsewhere.
A greedy [...]
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