Geopolitics of hate on March 30, 2016Geopolitics of hate has been trumping the geo-economics of amity in the subcontinent due to a global resurgence of power politics. India’s hitching onto the strategic bandwagon of the United States, and the consequent pursuit of corporate dividends of a strategic policy has propelled her pell-mell in an adversarial black hole vis-à-vis the regional and […]
What ails NAP? on February 23, 2016The National Action Plan (NAP) was adopted precipitately by the government after constant prodding by the military component of the state. It encapsulated the state’s desire to take on the hydra headed monster of terrorism. The plan that enshrined a long list of measures including counter terrorism, counter radicalisation, counter insurgency and choking off the […]
Structural violence and state failure on November 17, 2015A state fails when its polity is sick and in the grip of structural violence. According to famous Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, structural violence is a more insidious form of violence than the direct violence evidenced by wars and bloodshed. It is a system of inequity embedded in the social, political and economic structure of […]