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Budget 2019: Indian diplomacy needed a shot in the arm but budget flatters to deceive

Amb Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Union Budget 2019 India: Analysis reveals some notable facts: the MEA budget, from being close to 0.1% of India’s GDP in 2012-13, declined to 0.08% in 2018-19. Union Budget 2019 India: As the stature of India rises internationally, its diplomac....

July 10, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , VIF Scholars Outreach , Article , MEA , Parliamentary Standing Committee , Union Budget 2019 , India’s Act East Policy

Discussion on ‘Emergency: Darkest Hour in Indian Democracy’,

A discussion was held at the VIF on 24th June 2019 on the eve of 34 years since the declaration of the National Emergency in India. The idea behind was to retell stories related to Emergency - considered as one of the darkest periods in the history ....

July 03, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Book Discussions , Constitution , elections , New India , Policy Initiatives , Indira Gandhi , Emergency , Law

Politics of Opportunism: Regional Parties, Coalitions, Centre-State Relations In India

RNP Singh

With over 2000 political parties registered with the Election Commission and national parties no longer being able to garner a simple majority, the rules of the game of politics in India are fast changing. There is little doubt that coalition governm....

July 02, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Regional Parties , Indian Politics , Book Published , Centre-State Relations In India , Political opportunism , Coalitions

Policy Initiatives for The New Government - Building a ‘New India’

On May 30, 2019, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Prime Minister Modi was sworn in after the NDA registered an unprecedented 350 seats in the Lok Sabha. The new government will undoubtedly continue to implement the various goo....

June 25, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , New India , New Government , Policy Initiatives

जल-शक्ति

Rajesh Singh Article

जल-शक्ति नाम से सर्वथा नये मंत्रालय गठन प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में दूसरी बार गठ....

June 21, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , भाजपा के चुनावी वादे , स्वच्छ गंगा मिशन , गंभीर पेयजल संकट , प्रदूषित जलापूर्ति

Minorities

Rajesh Singh Article

The Modi government has created a flutter by its recent outreach to the minority community. It has announced scholarships to five crore students over the next five years, with a substantial number of them being girls; extended help to madrassas to eq....

June 18, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Defining term ‘minority’ , Preservation of minority rights , Government’s minority outreach

Release of Book ‘Caste as a Social Capital’ by Prof. R Vaidyanathan

A seminal book, namely, ‘Caste as a Social Capital’, revisiting Caste as playing an important role in promoting economic growth, written by Professor R Vaidyanathan was released on 9th April 2019 at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF),....

June 14, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Book Discussions , Caste as Social Capital , Caste , Backward Classes , Scheduled Castes , Sampradaya’

Has ‘Sab ka Saath ..’ Ended the Political Trick of ‘Divide and Rule’?

Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry”, - T S Eliot

Politics in ‘New India’

Interactions with the masses indicate a rediscovery o....

June 14, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Uplift of minorities , Dividing society in name of democracy , Citizen vs voter

Jal Shakti

Rajesh Singh Commentary

One of the highlights of Government formation for a second time under the prime ministership of Narendra Modi was the creation of a new Jal Shakti Ministry. This was pursuant to the promise the Bharatiya Janata Party had made in its poll manifesto, n....

June 05, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Water crisis , Jal Shakti Ministry , Water conservation