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Alternate Perceptions of India: Arguing for a Counter Narrative

Dr. Anirban Ganguly, Research Fellow, VIF

Introduction

Descriptions of India and of Hindus that have assumed a dominant position in the discourse on Indian civilisation and culture have mostly been those which have distorted the perception of India.

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  • Historical and Civilisational Studies

Reforming the Indian Police

Dr M N Buch, Dean, Centre for Governance and Political Studies, VIF

In the case relating to irregularities or even criminality in the allocation of coal blocks, where investigation was handed over to the CBI, the Supreme Court has taken strong

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  • Police - Law and Order
  • Governance and Political Studies

WestMinister’s Take on Future of Afghanistan

Monish Gulati

Introduction

In its recent report-“Securing the Future of Afghanistan,” the UK House of Commons Defence Select Committee calls for measures to help establish a “peaceful and functioning” Afghanistan. The report, which pays tribute

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  • Afghanistan
  • Neighbourhood Studies

Lip Service is Still Being Paid to Defence Indigenisation

Brig (retd) Gurmeet Kanwal, Visiting Fellow, VIF

The Defence Minister, Mr A K Antony, has repeatedly exhorted the armed forces to procure their weapons and equipment from indigenous sources in recent months.

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  • National Security and Strategic Studies
  • Defence

Use and Misuse of Public Funds: Some Questions Which Must be Asked

Dr M N Buch, Dean, Centre for Governance and Political Studies, VIF

Recently Rahul Gandhi visited Bhopal for a day on purely Congress Party work. He did not come by a normal commercial flight, the fare of which he could have reimbursed as a Member of Parliament.

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  • Governance and Political Studies

Bowing Down to The Dragon

Kanwal Sibal, Dean, Centre for International Relations and Diplomacy, VIF

Our statements on the recent India-China face-off in Ladakh continue to confound. One would have thought that we would have analysed the incident in depth, tried to figure

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