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. [...]
What attracts women?
INI’s resident military affairs expert (no, no pun intended) sends in an article with the following bit highlighted:
Young women who don’t join the army have another important role to play. They may opt to marry army officers and encourage their female friends to follow suit. If pretty young women in large numbers come [...]
Permitting beards, regulating lengths
Other than tradition, there is no good reason for a the Indian Air Force to impose a blanket ban on beards. Sikh officers in all three armed services and the police force are allowed to wear beards and turbans. Beard-keeping is a tradition in the Indian Navy, and naval officers are allowed [...]
The rational farmers of Maharashtra
Just how does P Sainath position facts that show how Maharashtra’s farmers are capitalising on the opportunity created by rising global foodgrain prices? Oh, by saying that they are replacing one type of volatility (planting cotton) by another (soyabeans).
After pointing out how farmers are reaping the benefits of growing soyabeans, [...]
A thousand Lalit Mehtas will risk their lives fighting corruption. And how entirely avoidable this could have been.
There is an outcry over the murder of Lalit Mehta, an upright public-minded citizen, who was allegedly killed while attempting to expose the corruption in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Palamau, Jharkhand. The public attention [...]
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 [...]
Modern India’s leaders must stop disparaging wealth creation
L K Advani’s speech at CII was a lot better than Manmohan Singh’s: for he recognised the need for the government to match the ambition of the population. [Yossarin has a fuller analysis]
Rather, the soaring ambitions, aspirations and expectations of the Indian people, especially India’s youth, make it [...]
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 [...]
The UPA reserves its unkindest cut for the Vidarbha farmer
It is not common to see this blog cite a P Sainath article in approving terms. He continues to cast the issue of agrarian suicides in divisive terms, but gets one thing right in this op-ed about the UPA government’s 60,000 crore loan waiver for small [...]
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