COMMENTARIES
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India-Iran
Modi in Iran: A Successful Visit
Ambassador KP Fabian · 25 May, 2016 · #5037 · Commentary
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Iran from 22-23 May 2016 is easily one of the best visits in terms of impact, made by this globe-trotting head of government who went to 26 countries in 2015. This visit has to be view...
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Of Ranks and Scores in Nuclear Security: 18 Years of South Asian Nuclearisation
Rabia Akhtar · 24 May, 2016 · #5036 · Commentary
In the foreword of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Index 2016, Sam Nunn, NTI Co-Chairman and CEO, asked an important question in the context of the last Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) held in Washington, DC: “Without the high-level atte...
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China: How is Nuclear Security Understood?
Chao Xie · 23 May, 2016 · #5035 · Commentary
China is situated in a nuclear neighborhood, with Russia, India, and Pakistan in possession of nuclear weapons, the DPRK a potential owner, and several others with nuclear materials. Just as some of these states are confronted with eminent threa...
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Election Analysis
Verdict 2016: Assam
Wasbir Hussain · 20 May, 2016 · #5034 · Commentary
The BJP managed to break free from its ‘Hindi-heartland’ image by storming Assam with a massive victory, winning, along with its allies, 86 of the 126 assembly seats – thereby making its debut not just in Northeast India but in...
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Election Analysis
Verdict 2016: Tamil Nadu
Abhijit Iyer‐Mitra · 20 May, 2016 · #5033 · Commentary
This Tamil Nadu election was a landmark that brought two things – equilibrium and clarity. The equilibrium is that Tamil Nadu for the first time in 25 years since the 1991 election has a strong opposition. The clarity was regarding the rel...
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Election Analysis
Verdict 2016: Kerala
Manu S Pillai · 20 May, 2016 · #5032 · Commentary
Voters in the state of Kerala on India’s south-western coast heralded in its fifteenth legislative assembly on 19 May with a guarded but noteworthy break from tradition. On the face of it, the rotation of power between the Communist Party ...
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Election Analysis
Verdict 2016: West Bengal
Mayuri Mukherjee · 20 May, 2016 · #5031 · Commentary
In West Bengal, the assembly election results have brought reason to cheer for three of the four major players in the state. At the top of the pile is the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has won an impressive 211 seats in the 294-seat assembly, ...
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Russia-Japan: Onset of a Thaw?
Monish Gulati · 18 May, 2016 · #5030 · Commentary
On 6 May 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. During the meeting, Abe presented an eight-point plan on bilateral economic cooperation with Russia, which included cooperation on oil and gas ...
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Strategic Space
Same Age, Different Behaviour: Nuclear India and Nuclear Pakistan
Manpreet Sethi · 16 May, 2016 · #5029 · Commentary · Column
On 11 and 13 May, India completed 18 years as a nuclear-armed state. A couple of weeks from now Pakistan will do so too. And yet despite sharing the same age as overt nuclear weapons states, the two countries are far apart in their understanding...
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Dateline Colombo
Remembering Tagore in Turbulent Times
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 13 May, 2016 · #5028 · Commentary · Column
“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
Rabindranath Tagor...
