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Three Cheers - Jammu and Kashmir is Truly Integrated with India
General NC Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM Commentary

Lightening strike, surgical operations and surprise are the terminologies most used and practiced in military operations. But here in Jammu and Kashmir, Government of India has done one better and in one step resolved the 70 years old legacy of a pr....

August 10, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Repeal of Articles 370 & 35A , Roots of Kashmir separatism , Pakistan’s antics over Kashmir
सब का साथ, सब का विश्वास ने क्या ‘बांटो और शासन करो’ की सियासी चालों को खत्म कर दिया है?
Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

“चुनाव आ रहा है। विश्व शांति की घोषणा की गई है और लोमड़ियों ने मुर्गियों को दीर्घायु करने में ग....

August 09, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , अल्पसंख्यकों का उत्थान , लोकतंत्र के नाम पर समाज को बांटना , बांटो और शासन करो की राजनीति
Modi did what Nehru wanted to, but couldn’t, on Article 370
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

When Home Minister Amit Shah declared on August 6 that Article 370 has been scrapped and Kashmir fully integrated with the rest of India, whether or not he was aware, he said almost exactly what Jawaharlal Nehru told the Lok Sabha 56 years ago, on De....

August 07, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Lok Sabha , Article 370 , Amit Shah , Jawaharlal Nehru , RSS , Congress Kashmir abrogation
Repeal of Temporary Articles 370 and the 35A Intrusion
Rajesh Singh Article

Those who had been wondering whether the Modi Government would bite the bullet on Article 370 and Article 35A got their answer on August 5. Not only did the government scrap the two provisions, the first of which was of a temporary nature and the se....

August 06, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Article 370 & 35A , Integration of J&K , Roots of separatism in Kashmir Valley
अल्पसंख्यक कौन हैं?
Rajesh Singh Article

केंद्र की नरेन्द्र मोदी सरकार ने अल्पसंख्यक समुदाय तक अपनी पहुंच और बढ़ा कर देश में एक स्पंदन प....

July 31, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , अल्पसंख्यक की परिभाषा , अल्पसंख्यक समुदाय तक पहुंच , अल्पसंख्यक शिक्षा स्तर
Vimarsha: Talk on ‘Why Triple Talaq should be made a Punishable Offence’, by Shri Arif Mohd. Khan

The latest session of Vimarsha Talk was organised by the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on July 19, 2019. Shri Arif Mohd. Khan, Former Union Cabinet Minister, put forth an informed argument on ‘Why Triple Talaq should be made a Punishab....

July 29, 2019 Vimarsh , Governance and Political Studies , Supreme Court , Lok Sabha , Triple Talaq , Islamic philosophy
Book Discussion on “Amit Shah and the March of BJP” by Dr. Anirban Ganguly & Shiwananda Dwivedi

A discussion was held in VIF on July 23rd, 2019 by the esteemed authors Dr. Anirban Ganguly, and Shiwananda Dwivedi, on their recently released book, “Amit Shah and the March of BJP”, published by Bloomsbury publishers. Dr. Ganguly is the Directo....

July 26, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Book Discussions , democracy , Leadership , Bharatiya Janata Party , Amit Shah , March of BJP , Political organisation
मोदी का दूसरा कार्यकाल: ‘नेबरहुड फर्स्ट’ पर अमल
Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

भारत के आम चुनावों पर अन्य लोगों के साथ ही पड़ोसियों का भी भरपूर ध्यान रहा। कई को चुनावी कवायद के ....

July 25, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , मोदी की वापसी , भारत के पड़ोसि , ‘नेबरहुड फर्स्ट’ नीति
Our Constitution: Preamble Debates
Rajesh Singh Article

Last month (June), the nation remembered Emergency, which had been imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975. The horrors that followed have been repeatedly chronicled — large-scale arrests of the then Prime Minister’s political adversaries....

July 23, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Indian Constitution , Preamble of Constitution , Constitutional debates
The Spirit of Indian Federalism
Rajesh Singh Article

The issue of India’s federal nature has been both a subject of reiteration and conflict between the ruling party and the opposition. There have been instances when the opposition parties accused the Centre of violating the federal spirit through po....

July 18, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Indian Constitution , Federalism in India , Indian Union
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