Pragati: October 2008 Issue

Issue Contents

PERSPECTIVE
Asian growth in an American vaccuum
A stronger rupee is the path ahead for India
V Anantha Nageswaran

Frontline worry in the war on terror
Washington must learn to do without a friendly Pakistani general
Nikolas Gvosdev

Fewer laws, more efficient enforcement
There are no shortcuts in the battle against terrorists
Ravikiran S Rao

Towards a new anti-terrorism policy
A seven-point programme
Nitin Pai

IN DEPTH

The Vajpayee-Manmohan doctrine
The moorings of contemporary Indian foreign policy
Dhruva Jaishankar

FILTER
Washington’s Pakistan strategy; Pakistan’s westward drift; The next chapter
Vijay Vikram

ROUNDUP
A new millennium in science
India’s scientific output has risen sharply since 2000
Christopher King

An electric imperative
Bringing power sector reforms back onto the national agenda
Gulzar Natarajan

BOOKS
American Indians
A review of Vinay Lal’s The Other Indians
Chandrahas Choudhury

Read excerpts | Download

Related posts:

1. Op-Ed in Pragati: Getting Objective about it (This article appeared in the June 2009 edition of Pragati) In January 2009, US network PBS telecast a documentary titled The Story of India. Hosted by Michael Wood,this six-part...
2. Pragati June 2009: A sense of history This month’s Pragati is a history special and I was the guest editor. But why history? Because, first, a shared understanding of history is likely to smoothen the public policy...