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Patching the gaps in India’s cybersecurity

Arindrajit Basu Pranesh Prakash

Doctrinal clarity and institutional coherence are essential for a robust cybersecurity posture

Not so stellar in protecting personal liberty

Suhrith Parthasarathy

With Biden, India may need a new template

K.V. Prasad Despite accumulated goodwill, New Delhi needs imaginative engagement to deal with the Democrat-controlled House

The distress sale of national assets is unwise

Sonia Gandhi The government’s intent to offload public sector units and banks will only result in the long-term loss of public wealth

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Anders Breivik & Europe's blind right eye

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Food Security Bill needs amendments

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The extraordinary icon who matters

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The Indian fine art of faking security

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Cross-LoC trade and peace-building

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Why U.K. employers prefer foreign workers

Aadhaar: on a platform of myths

The Aadhaar project, just as its failed counterpart in the U.K., stands on a platform of myths. India needs a mass campaign to expose these myths.

Promise of a vibrant centre of ideas

The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi needs a fresh infusion of intellectual life into it.

Towards establishing health equity

The challenge is to acknowledge the inappropriateness of the current health education and delivery systems, and refashion health care delivery relevant for the country.

The death of a warlord

Ahmad Wali Karzai's story illustrates how the American neoconservatives' way of war allowed entrepreneurs of violence to expand their power in Afghanistan.

Salwa Judum and the Supreme Court

The carefully constructed decision to disband the untrained force of young Special Police Officers in Chhattisgarh holds important lessons for the exercise of executive power.

Needed: the mother of all reshuffles

If the exercise on Tuesday is hesitant and small-scale, read it as a sign that the Congress has lost the will to fight. A bold reshuffle, on the other hand, will send out the opposite message.

When the neighbour's house catches fire

India should evolve a joint strategy with Pakistan to fight terror and build a regional initiative on Afghanistan.

Rise of the Russian Orthodox Church

Notwithstanding the indifference of most Russians, the Orthodox Church, with active support from the state, has effectively established itself as state religion.

The gang that couldn't shoot straight

As we close in on 20 years of Manmohanomics, it's worth remembering one chant the chattering classes uttered, first with pride, later to console

America's secret romance with Islamism

Kamalshah, son of Pahlawanshah, son of Said Ahmad Faqir, a resident of Laqlick, stormed into the shari'a court of the remote Afghan district of Kunnar

Iran and the Arab Spring

In a campaign radiating primarily from Riyadh as well as other Arab capitals, Tehran is being held responsible for aggressively masterminding the rise of a ‘Shia-crescent' in West Asia.

Myanmar: challenges and way forward

The old era of military regime has ended and the new era of ‘civilian' rule, with all its imperfections, has begun in Myanmar.

Reversing the logic of the nuclear deal

The recently reported decision of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) on additional restrictions for transfer of ENR (enrichment and reprocessing)

Tagore and the idea of Cooperation

Nearly eight decades ago, Rabindranath Tagore worried about the growing concentration of economic power and the coming destruction of rural India.

Lokpal bill and the Prime Minister

When the basic structure of the Constitution denies the Prime Minister immunity from prosecution, how could it be argued that the office should not be brought under the scrutiny of the Lokpal?

Conditional cash transfers and health

Conditional cash transfers are necessary but not sufficient for improving health. Good government-funded health care is essential, as are schemes which address social determinants of health.

Korea's endless nuclear nightmare

Six decades since nuclear weapons first flew towards the peninsula, slung under a B29, they continue to cast a malevolent shadow.

Taliban's return and India's concerns

While there is no evidence that Barack Obama consulted New Delhi about the impending shift in U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, India must now begin a ‘dialogue' with the Taliban along with a policy to instil confidence in the Pakistani mind about our intentions.

A law that thwarts justice

Section 15 of the Hindu Succession Act that determines the order of succession in the case of a Hindu woman who dies intestate should be amended for, it reflects an entrenched system of subjugation of women.

Bangladesh: restoring secular Constitution

Two Supreme Court verdicts declaring the controversial fifth and eighths amendments void have brightened the scope for a meaningful constitutional change.

Creating enabling environments

The denial of equality, dignity and autonomy to persons with disabilities lies at the core of disability rights.

Kashmir step by step: the next round of talks

India needs to understand that the absence of violence in the Kashmir Valley is not peace, and that development and dignity for all Kashmiris go hand in hand. Pakistan must recognise that violence will never bring peace for Kashmiris, and will imperil all Pakistanis.

Is Arab Spring wishful thinking?

The prospects of a meaningful Arab Spring do not look bright as of now.

A bill to settle a terrible debt

For decades, the victims of communal and targeted violence have been denied protections of law that the rest of us take for granted. It's time to end this injustice.

Is the government serious about dealing with corruption?

The Lokpal is designed to be a comprehensive anti-corruption institution independent of the government, empowered to effectively investigate corruption of all public servants. But most of the critical elements in this vision have been rejected.

Should water be moved to Concurrent List?

Putting water on the Concurrent List is not necessarily an act of centralisation, though it could lead to such a development. That danger is real and needs to be avoided.

The discreet charm of civil society

There is nothing wrong in having advisory groups. But there is a problem when groups not constituted legally cross the line of demands, advice and rights-based, democratic agitation.

Neutral Afghanistan serves regional stability

The U.S. and NATO now acknowledge that a complete withdrawal from the South and Central Asian region by 2014 is not on the cards. Regional powers face a challenge.

Turkey's election & Arab Spring

By showing that piety can coexist, if not thrive, with entrepreneurship, hard work and liberal democracy, Turkey has illuminated a path that the depressed youth in West Asia and beyond can pursue.

SCO: 10 years of evolution and impact

The dangers of the endgame in Afghanistan will be high on the minds of SCO leaders as they seek to energise the group's regional policies at the Astana summit.

Dealing with India in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship

In its dealings with the United States, Pakistan starts from the threat it perceives from India and emphasises India's shortcomings. It will continue to use the United States as a balancer, barring a major improvement in India-Pakistan relations.

Pakistan's Kashmiri problem

Even if a military offensive against jihadist leader Ilyas Kashmiri's bases in North Waziristan materialises, Pakistan's prospects of crushing the jihadist movement are bleak.

An artist who had a brush with the nation

M.F. Husain exposed the moral dilemmas of the nation through a pictorial eclecticism that makes him the contemporary symbolist and fabulist of the nation.

An exercise in undercounting the poor

The impending BPL Census exercise will not help the poor; on the contrary, it will further deny them a fair share in national resources.

The nation state and its territory

Every nation state, whether it formally came into being within living memory or has been a stable polity for centuries, views itself as a unique and inviolable territorial entity.

Pakistan: shakier than ever before

Questions are being asked about the choices Pakistan has made over the past several decades, bringing it to the point where its very existence as a functional state stands threatened.

A weakness born of bad intent

The UPA government's unwillingness to act against the abuse of political and corporate power has created a vacuum which others are rushing to fill.

Freedom of press and journalistic ethics – II

India now has a disconnect between the mass media and mass reality. Often the media concentrate on some Potemkin villages where all is glamour and show business.

Freedom of the press and journalistic ethics

Freedom is important, so is responsibility. In countries like India, the media have a responsibility to fight backward ideas such as casteism and communalism, and help the people fight poverty and other social evils.

Cameron's barbecue diplomacy

While Americans have been mostly businesslike in their dealings with Britain, the Cameron government has fallen back on the default British position: a desperate desire to feel “wanted” by Washington.

The case of the missing BJP

Two years into its second term, the Congress looks bruised and battered. But the BJP has done nothing to exploit the situation.

For drafting an ideal Lokpal Bill

The success of the institution of Lokpal will depend on limiting its scope to the very top of the hierarchy. That will make it manageable and lead to accountability down the line.

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