IDSA Comments

While businesses, especially industries, face a real dilemma, the long-term solution is the isolation of the Maoists by winning over the local people through projects that benefit local communities.

• P. V. Ramana
• October 03, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Lower riparian countries likely to be affected by China’s construction of dams and river diversion projects in Tibet need to initiate a bilateral or multilateral dialogue with China.

• Hari Bansh Jha
• September 30, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Lower riparian countries likely to be affected by China’s construction of dams and river diversion projects in Tibet need to initiate a bilateral or multilateral dialogue with China.

• Hari Bansh Jha
• September 30, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The PAP needs to make itself more responsive to the common Singaporean’s demands in order to remain the single-most powerful representative of the people of Singapore.

• Rahul Mishra
• September 30, 2011
• IDSA Comments

While the institutional reforms and structures are in place, often their effectiveness is impeded by corrupt practices and lack of proper maintenance and implementation on ground.

• Medha Bisht
• September 30, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The composition of the Indian delegation to the ongoing Strategic Economic Dialogue is suggestive that issues such as telecom, water, infrastructural development and railways are being discussed on a priority basis.

• R N Das
• September 27, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Left behind will be a quasi-theocratic Afghan state compelled to accommodate Talibani-style cultural medievalism and a Pakistani state teetering on the brink of political self-destruction and social chaos.

• Harold A. Gould
• September 26, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The PM’s speech in the UN General Assembly shows that Indian foreign policy may be rediscovering age old themes which had become subdued in recent years.

• Arvind Gupta
• September 26, 2011
• IDSA Comments

India is currently in the midst of a battery of scheduled missile tests at its Chandipur test range off the coast of Orissa, including scheduled tests of the Prithvi-II and Agni-II. On Saturday, India tested, for the third time, a 750-km semi-ballistic missile named Shourya. The Shourya has roughly the same range as the Agni-I but is designed to be more mobile, with a reduced logistics trail.

• Vipin Narang
• September 26, 2011
• IDSA Comments

There is no point in acting with bravado when we do not have the necessary military capacity to take on the Chinese in the South China Seas.

• R. S. Kalha
• September 23, 2011
• IDSA Comments