Tag Archive for ‘India’
Bridging the Gap between Policy-Making and Academia: An Interview with South Asia expert Alexander Evans
From Volume 7, Issue 2 – September 2012 – Download PDF YJIA: How has your experience as an academic influenced your work as a diplomat and vice versa? Can you speak to the unique role of a diplomat-academic and how that role is perceived in each of those communities? Evans: One practice influences the [...]
Kashmir Infitada
By Shome Basu* Nestled between the Himalyas and the Pir Panjal mountain range, Kashmir was, is and always will be a paradise. Sadly these views are not without a price. With boundaries that stretch across two hostile countries – India and Pakistan, Kashmir has a tragically tortured past and present. Currently occupied by over 7,00,000 army, police and paramilitary [...]
The Forgotten History of Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Tara Vassefi* Pakistan’s historical and contemporary support for jihadi groups has caused US policy prescriptions over the past decade to focus prominently on the need to change Pakistan’s strategic orientation. In this article, the authors explore one aspect of Pakistan’s strategic calculations that has received insufficient attention in public debate: the [...]
China and Pakistan: Fair-Weather Friends
By Michael Beckley* Two assumptions dominate current debates on US foreign policy toward Pakistan. First, Pakistan shares a robust “all- weather” friendship with China centered on core national interests. Second, Pakistan’s ability to turn to China in times of need insulates it from US pressure and renders hardline US policies counterproductive. Both of these assumptions [...]
Fragile: A story of Bihar migrants working in Calcutta’s largest wholesale market
Photo Essay by Chhandak Pardhan* On the congested road outside Kolay Market- Calcutta’s largest wholesale vegetable market, one often comes across group of well built men in colourful turbans. Wrestling bundles weighing hundreds of kilograms onto the turban-wrapped heads of fellow workers, they deliver bushels of veggies from the trucks and carts outside to the [...]
