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Is Our Secularism Only Skin Deep?
December 23 , 2011 Dr M N Buch (late)
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“By his Constitutions of Clarendon he (Henry II Plantagenet) sought to fix the relationship of Church and State and to force the Church in its temporal character to submit itself to life and law of the ...

Governance and Political Studies

How About Some Commonsense in Dealing with Corruption?
December 16 , 2011 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 4039
I joined the Indian Administrative Service more than fifty-four years ago in 1957. Government was much less complex then, but we were already into an era of planned development and increasingly the reg...

Governance and Political Studies

The Epics and our National Life: ignored perspectives, six examples and some views
December 15 , 2011 Dr Anirban Ganguly
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Avant Propos: Constructing – Deconstructionism

Historical and Civilisational Studies

The Turmoil Within - Pakistan’s future is causing concern all over the world
December 15 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Pakistan’s future is raising concerns internationally. Can this nuclear-armed country step back from the brink by radically changing its internal and external outlook? Pakistan cannot break its Islamic ...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Don’t Write off Putin Just Yet
December 13 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Western criticism of the results of the December 4 parliamentary elections in Russia is not surprising. The West’s fued with Russia’s democracy goes back to Putin’s ascendancy to power in 2000. It is Ru...

International Relations and Diplomacy

India Should Strengthen Its Maritime Security Architecrure
December 12 , 2011 Radhakrishna Rao
Views: 23642
India, as a nation, seems to have gained notoriety for not learning from the past mistakes. Equally glaring is India’s consistent failure to respond to the emerging situations with the speed and serio...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Border and Coastal Security

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