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Kapil Sibal could harvest the demographic dividend

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Twenty years back when we left India, Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi used to consider India’s exploding population as a major national liability. Their successors, P V Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan Singh converted this liability into a global human capital. How could this happen and that too virtually overnight? [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part XII

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was perceived by Indian voters as a strong and decisive leader in 1998-99. His 13 month long second term plus 6 months as ‘care-taker prime minister’ convinced the people that the country would be safer in his hands. General Elections were held in India from September 5 to October 3, [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part X

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

There has been enough material available on India’s foreign policy but most of it has been published by local experts. Some of us who have been based in the United States for the last 20 years see the evolution of India’s foreign policy little differently. I have quoted Aneek Chatterjee of Presidency College, Kolkata in [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part IV

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Some of us who were born in 1940s did not feel the impact of India’s independence. We felt as if the political power was transferred from the British Empire to the Nehru-Gandhi dispensation. Jawaharlal Nehru was a democrat as long as he was the undisputed leader. Indira Gandhi had no such pretensions, she ruled over [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part III

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi defined India’s foreign policy like no other politician before her. She was not diffident of openly supporting the repressive regimes of the then Soviet Union, Cuba and any other communist country. She was not much enchanted by the communist China. She projected a robust national defense policy thereby keeping an expansionist [...]

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