POLICY BRIEF 05: BRICS: STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY P. S. RAGHAVAN

Making a pitch for rebooting the stalled UN Security Council reform process, India has said that to regain its “lost legitimacy” the council should change to reflect new world realities. “The security council which takes decisions on behalf of ‘We the People’ represents an increasingly small minority of the world’s population,” India’s permanent representative Syed […]

Concerning the impact of climate on india’s security

Concerning the Impact of CLIMATE CHANGE ON INDIA’S SECURITY VICE ADMIRAL (RETD.) PRADEEP CHAUHAN, Director, National Maritime Foundation & Adviser, Ananta Aspen Centre is an alumnus of India’s National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College, College of NavalWarfare and the National Defence College, Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan retired in December 2013 after an extremely distinguished […]

TOWARDS A NATIONAL CULTURE POLICY

TOWARDS A NATIONALCULTURE POLICY VIKRAM SAMPATH is a Bangalore-based Sahitya Akademi award winning author/historian, archivist, political commentator and a Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellow (ClassVI). He is part of several State & Central Government committees on policy matters related to art, culture, archiving and tourism. He is also the author of three acclaimed books of non-fiction: ‘Splendours […]

What’s love got to do with it? it’s Money, Fame and Power stupid

What’s love got to do with it? it’s Money, Fame and Power stupid When asked what advice she’d give to her 15-year-old self, the celebrated 83-year-old African American poet, Maya Angelou broached the subject of inspiration. “Find a beautiful piece of art,” she said. “If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or […]

It’s a Small World After All

“It’s a world of laughter, a world or tears, its a world of hopes, its a world of fear, theres so much that we share that its time we’re aware, its a small world after all.” Sherman Brothers, in the early 1960s, wrote this song for a Walt Disneyshow dedicated to the children of the […]

China: A mysterious, young girl

China: A mysterious, young girl— Anuj Poddar, Aspen India Leadership Initiative Fellow PrefaceThis past summer, a group of Aspen Fellows descended in Beijing, China for an AGLN1 Alumni Seminar focused on understanding China. As Aspen Fellows (read: above-normal IQs, I-know-it-all-attitude and very opinionated intellectuals) many of us already knew China. And yet something drew each […]

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