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 […]

A recap of my fellowship experience at Aspen Institute India.

I have wanted to come to India for the longest time thanks to how fondly family, friends and acquaintances spoke fondly of various trips to India. Prior to my fellowship at Aspen Institute India, I was fortunate enough to live in Japan and travel to some Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong, South Korea, […]

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