Modis victory on March 13, 2017The ruling Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) further strengthened its position with stupendous victories in assembly elections held in two states, Uttar Pradesh (the party won 325/403 seats) and Uttarakhand (58/70 seats). The Congress Party triumphed in the state of Punjab winning 77/117 seats, while in Manipur and Goa, Congress emerged as the single […]
Indo-Pak water issues: room for cooperation? on July 25, 2011Both India and Pakistan are facing an acute water crisis and it is important for them not to fall for western discourse, which never misses an opportunity to portray water as the next catalyst between the two nuclear states. A latest report by the US Senate, ‘Avoiding Water Wars: Water scarcity and Central Asia’s Growing […]
Religious connectivity in Indo-Pak context on July 18, 2011Nearly 64 years after the partition of India, there are individuals in both India and Pakistan who fervently believe that faith is responsible for all the acrimony prevalent between the two nuclear states. In the aftermath of 9/11, fissures between the ‘Islamic’ and ‘non-Islamic’ world — a categorisation which is rather nebulous — have only […]