Uttar Pradesh is the largest state in terms of population, the 2nd largest state in terms of size, second largest economy in the country, largest producer of vegetables and the cultural hub of India. But above all, it can be […]
“I have to be cruel to be kind”, said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as he presented the Budget for the current fiscal year (2012-13). These words from Shakespeare’s ‘Prince of Denmark’ rightly sums up his state of mind vis-à-vis Mamata Bannerjee’s outright opposition to any […]
Sometime back a gory image of roasted bodies lying strewn across a field went viral across Face book and other social networking sites. The caption described it as the handiwork of Muslim fundamentalists in Nigeria who had planted land mines in […]
A foreign policy is to a country what social etiquette is to a civilized person. You can survive without it no doubt, but devoid of any social relations or contacts. A nation could have existed fine without a foreign policy […]
India has long been befuddled by trying questions on it’s sketchy foreign policy, never more than in the reign of the current government. With fledgling loyalties being tested by increasingly real threats, will we be able to take the right […]
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