Category: India & Its Neighbours

The “Raja-Mandala” approach to containing Pakistan

A few days ago, I chanced upon this article by Vanni Cappelli (freelance journalist; co-founder and president of the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association) titled “Containing Pakistan: Engaging the Raja-Mandala in South-Central Asia” Vanni starts by...

Sirpur: A forgotten medieval cosmopolis

A report on how archeological research is changing some of our fundamental ideas and mis-conceptions about the history and prosperity of medieval Bharat: From Finding Sirpur, by Chitra Ramaswamy, some excerpts: “…Standing on the...

“India’s Islamist Groups” – Extracts

A very well researched piece on “India’s Islamist Groups” by Husain Haqqani (Published on Thursday, February 16, 2006) Source: http://www.futureofmuslimworld.com/research/pubID.38/pub_detail.asp  Extracts: “Contemporary India is a Hindu-majority country, governed under a secular democratic constitution since 1947,...

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the US

Peter Beinart recently wrote an insightful and cautionary comment in TIME on the relationship between US and Saudi Arabia – especially in the light of the current situation in the Middle East. Read some...