South Asia
India Shows Split Personality as Emerging Donor
In recent years India’s aid program has changed dramatically in size, focus, and strategic thinking. What is the extent of India’s giving and how has it changed? As an emerging donor how can India best align its aid strategy with a realistic assessment of its strengths?
Educating India: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
A 10-year survey of elementary education reveals the good, the bad and the ugly of India’s education system. Since 1996 much has improved yet teaching quality remains abysmally low, it seems. And privatization is an illusory solution.
A Post-Mumbai Agenda II: Managing Pakistan
India cannot depend on US pressure alone to alter Pakistan’s track record of harboring terrorists. Faced with repeated failures to contain Pakistan, what is India to do?
A Post-Mumbai Agenda I: Fixing Internal Security
Mumbai is a wake up call that offers valuable lessons on managing anti-terror operations. Before we look at “external elements,” the first step to be taken with resolve is to set our own house in order.
Regulating Education in India: How Much?
The WSJ says that Indian universities are suffering from overregulation. But what is the solution? To have it withdraw or to hold the government accountable? One is easy, the other an essential part of a working democracy.
Climate Change and India: Negotiating A Friendly Global Policy
Getting the world to act on climate change is in India’s interests, yet the country has avoided action of its own. This can be explained by the realities of international negotiation. But amid mounting pressure for a global policy framework, what are the steps India should move the agenda in its favor?
Two Approaches to Improving Education
India has announced major investments in education. Given the scale of needs, the government rightly believes in focusing on well-tested methodologies, rather than on risky bets such as the OLPC.
A Small Victory for Islamic Conservatives, A Giant Defeat for Indian Secularism
The BBC has just reported that Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi author at the heart of Kolkata’s riots, has been escorted out of the city, following a demand by Kolkata police that she leave the city.
This is a tragedy of colossal proportions, akin to Modi’s support of the Godhara riots. But the biggest tragedy in simply that [...]
