COMMENTARIES
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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...
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WTO Verdict: A Roadblock to India’s National Solar Mission?
Ateetmani Brar · 13 May, 2016 · #5027 · Commentary
In February 2013, the US filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) challenging the Indian government’s Domestic Content Requirements (DCR) for solar cells and modules under the latter’s ongoing National Solar Mi...
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Spotlight West Asia
West Asia, US, and Obama’s Statesman-like Legacy
Ranjit Gupta · 10 May, 2016 · #5026 · Commentary · Column
The US has been the main architect and central pole of the West Asian security landscape since World War II. It has sought to maintain security through a web of bilateral and regional military alliances and militaristic solutions to political pr...
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East Asia Compass
North Korea’s 7th Party Congress: Context and Content
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 10 May, 2016 · #5025 · Commentary · Column
After a long gap, North Korea is holding the 7th Workers’ Party Congress from 6 May. There are more than a hundred journalists from various countries who have been invited to report the event - but there is not much reporting about the act...
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IPCS Discussion
Who Sets the Table: Negotiated Sovereignty and the Indo-Naga Relationship
Report · 06 May, 2016 · #5024 · Commentary
On 2 May 2016, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) conducted a round-table discussion, titled ‘Who Sets the Table: Negotiated Sovereignty and the Indo-Naga Relationship’. This is a report of the proceedings.
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