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Western Discourse on Pak Nukes Exposes ‘Double Standards’ Vis-a-Vis India
Arundhati Ghose

It certainly cannot be the cooler days in Delhi that has attracted, in recent weeks, so many concerned western ‘experts’ to the capital, to discuss the abstruse-to the Indian public-subject of “strategic stability” in Asia/ in the sub-contine....

November 28, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan
Interaction with Mr Adam Thomson, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan

Vivekananda International Foundation welcomed Mr Adam Thomson, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan on 26th November 2013 for an interaction with leading security and foreign policy strategists of India. The team for interaction was h....

November 27, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Pakistan , British High Commissioner , Political situation in Pakistan
China’s Geo-Strategic Jaw : Another Step to Global Power
Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF

Preamble Development of the Gwadar Port on Pakistan’s Makran Coast on the Arabian Sea has been in the news off and on since the project took a concrete shape in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, thousands of kilometres to the North, across the e....

November 27, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Expert Committee Report on Patna Blasts

Report of an Expert Committee on blasts in a political rally in Patna on October 27, 2013 and Recommendations for strengthening security measures

November 26, 2013 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Police - Law and Order
Populism and Emotional Blackmail in Indian Elections: Time to Grow Up
Dr M N Buch (late)

India is a representative democracy, a republic which is socialist and secular and in which the Preamble of the Constitution and Article 19 guarantee the fundamental right of freedom of speech and the freedom to form associations or unions. These can....

November 25, 2013 Governance and Political Studies
In Memoriam: John F Kennedy
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

The historical record sheds positive light on JFK It is fifty years since the assassination of President Kennedy, and time to explore his Presidency for what it might have done for Indo-US relations, had he lived longer. What follows is an ....

November 22, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Patna Blasts – Implications Under Assessed
Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

The serial blasts that took place in Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on October 27, 2013 during BJP’s Hunkar rally was an event whose seriousness and implications have not been fully fathomed. In a setting consumed by ruthless electoral rivalries, the p....

November 21, 2013 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies
India-China Relations: Hype and Hoopla?
Amb Kanwal Sibal

We have a tendency to overstate the positives of our relations with China and downplay the negatives. This creates the impression that our ties are better than they actually are, and that the problems are either not as bad as they are made out to be ....

November 21, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Round-Table Discussion on Credibility of India’s Nuclear Deterrence

A Round-Table Discussion to deliberate upon the credibility of India’s Nuclear Deterrence especially in the light of Pakistan’s development of Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs) was held at the VIF on 18 November 2013. The discussion was chaired by ....

November 21, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Panel Discussion , Interaction , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , India’s Nuclear Deterrence , Nuclear missiles
Mangalyaan, Vibrant Symbol of India’s Growing Prowess in Space Exploration
Radhakrishna Rao

For a country that was badly in need of a good news, the spectacularly successful launch of India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan on Nov.5 came as a heart warming development that overwhelmed Indians with a sense of ”joy and pride” . ....

November 19, 2013 Technological and Scientific Studies
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