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‘The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty and the Wellbeing of Nations’, by David Pilling, Tim Duggan Books, 2018, Pages: 304, Price: $ 16.45, ISBN: 9780525572503
Vinod Bishnoi

Business Standard reported on August 16 that “India’s GDP (is) expected to grow at 7.4% in FY19”;1 to the general population this statement brings in a wave of optimism regarding not just the economy of the country but also a sense of progress in...

September 4, 2018
Economic Studies
Tags: Green Growth, Growth, Human Development, India’s GDP, Public services
‘China’s Future’, by David Shambaugh, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, Pages: 203, Price: $ 19.95, ISBN: 978-15095-0714-6
Gunjan Singh

The path which China will pursue in the coming future is one of the most debated and discussed topic among the current academic and policy making circle. The direction which Chinese politics, society and economy adopt almost directly impacts a large...

August 28, 2018
China, International Relations and Diplomacy
Tags: CCP, Chinese economy, Chinese politics, Chinese society, Xi
Pakistan at the Helm authored by Tilak Devasher, HarperCollins Publisher, India

Accessible at https://www.dawn.com/news/

August 27, 2018
Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies
Tags: Gen Ayub Khan, Helm
पुस्तक समीक्षा | एकीकरण के सूत्रधार सरदार पटेल पर नई पुस्तक

Published in Defence Monitor August September 2018

August 21, 2018
Governance and Political Studies
Tags: Sardar Patel
Sardar Patel, Unifier of Modern India, by RNP Singh, Vitasta Publishing Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, Mar 2018, Rs 795
O P Sharma

RNP Singh has lucidly narrated the heroic saga of integrating the nation by indomitable Sardar Vallabhbai Patel by incorporating the princely territories into it. The account refreshes the memory of struggle to keep together the parts of the...

June 12, 2018
Governance and Political Studies
Tags: Divide and Rule, Indira Gandhi, Modern India, Political map, Sardar Patel, Unity, Yuga Purush
‘Strangers No More’, by Sanjay Hazarika, Aleph Book Company, pp. 413, Price Rs 799/-
Pinaki Bhattacharya

Book Review

There are three kinds of media people who travel to the North-East of India: the north-easterners who have had to desert the sylvan vales of their region as economic refugees; career adventure journalists who like to get stellar roles in their...

April 13, 2018
National Security and Strategic Studies, North-East Insurgency
Tags: Act East, Act Fast, Armed forces, Government, North-East
‘Sharpening the Arsenal: India’s Evolving Nuclear Deterrence Policy’, Gurmeet Kanwal, Harper Collins Publishers Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017, pp 268, INR 599
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Book Review

The book deals comprehensively with India’s nuclear arsenal and finally suggests as to what must be done to sharpen it in the current environment.

February 9, 2018
National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence
Tags: Defence technology, Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Nuclear Power, TNWs
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra, Harper Collins Publishers, India, Pages 400, Price Rs 799/-.
Rajesh Singh

Book Review

It was Elie Wiesel who had said, “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilisation, no society, no future.” The Holocaust survivor would know, as would those in India and Pakistan who went through the trauma of...

November 13, 2017
Governance and Political Studies
Tags: 1947, India, Islamic nation, Mahatma Gandhi, Pakistan
India’s National Defence; Gautam Banerjee, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2017, pp 278, INR 995
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Book Review

The book India’s National Defence defines India’s Defence Reforms and Military Modernisation which it must undertake to meet the strategic challenges of the 21st Century. The book lucidly brings out India’s inability to optimise its military success...

September 26, 2017
National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence
Tags: Defence reforms, DRDO, military modernisation, NSCS, R&D
The New Arthashastra, Ed Gurmeet Kanwal, Harper Collins Publishers, Noida (Uttar Pradesh), 2016, pp 436, INR 799
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Book Review

The Arthashastra is an insight into the political thoughts of Kautilya. The book was written around 250 BCE. The most interesting idea presented in the book is the Mandala theory of interstate relations. Mandala represents the universe and our own...

December 26, 2016
National Security and Strategic Studies
Tags: Arthashastra, Cyber warfare, Internal Security, Maritime Security, NSCS, Political thoughts, Security strategy
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